Francis Beaumont Quotes

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont

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My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

Joe Taslim

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I really like involvement with an audience.

Anderson Cooper

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We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

John O. Brennan

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I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

Jeff Daniels

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I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Lucien Bouchard

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As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.

Mitt Romney

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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Joseph Kosinski

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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

Dick Cavett

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Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon intimidated us all because she walked in and was going to be the dance captain. She was a great star, but she loved that kind of work as his assistant.

Donna McKechnie

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But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

Donald Sutherland

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People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.

Art Donovan

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