Francis Beaumont Quotes

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

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Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

Joan Rivers

MoreTelephoneChineseThanTaylor

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

Jeff MacNelly

HopeJobGoSayWillWay

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

Robin Cousins

LearningProcessDoingEnjoyYou

I quit politics because I hated it.

Roger Ailes

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I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

Rose McGowan

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London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.

Mary Pilon

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Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail.

Mikko Hypponen

WorkComputersProblemsInternetRun

I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences for other people to be able to learn from them.

Misty Copeland

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People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

Jorge Garcia

PeopleYouKnowWantAskJust

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Desi Arnaz

FailureBusinessWorldFailTerrible

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

Seth MacFarlane

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