Alexander Woollcott Quotes

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Alexander Woollcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 19, 1887 - January 23, 1943

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A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.

Andrew Hudgins

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Trump is an entrepreneur.

Steve Bannon

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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Russell Baker

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In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.

Marvin Ammori

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I don't Tweet or Twat. I'm not on Instagram or Facebook.

Miriam Shor

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I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

Moby

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But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

Judith Light

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There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

Jose Angel Gurria

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Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.

Condola Rashad

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Nothing can come of nothing.

William Shakespeare

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The future, for us, is not in bold and big deals. It is in selective deals, and I prefer to focus on one accretive target worth around €2 bn. than several deals worth €200 m.

Thomas Buberl

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