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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.


Robert Morley

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REX HARRISON If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
ANGELINA JOLIE The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to ap...
MICHAEL KORDA The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to ap...
MICHAEL KORDA You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE I dont have a crush on anyone easily.
ANUSHKA SHARMA I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some...
DEBORRA-LEE FURNESS I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.
MICHAEL HOGAN Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.
BRYAN LOURD [Against whom was it turned? Against whom did he conspire?] Tum-tee-tum. And once more - TUM! ... I ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV inflict such wounds upon themselves.
JEAN CHAREST I see myself as an artist, as a professional, as a craftsman and as an all around narcissistic, need...
BARRY MANN I don't know anyone, anywhere, who works without a raise in almost 20 years.
DONNA ALLEN I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to...
HARRY B. THAYER I didn't want to make a fool of myself. I said that I would be who I am and not play a role.
DAVID KATZ If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
ANGELINA JOLIE Anyone who saw the undercover work of the BUAV would be appalled and sickened to see the procedures ...
ALEXEI SAYLE Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.
CHRIS ROCK Robert Zemeckis is a genius filmmaker who is an amazing individual. I feel really blessed that I'...
CHARLES FLEISCHER I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.
SUZANNE COLLINS The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
MARK TWAIN The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
MARILYN MONROE You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.
PETE BURNS Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.
J.K. ROWLING I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't w...
MAYA ANGELOU There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE A person who works on an anti-violence committee should set a personal example, ... Of course I deno...
GIDEON EZRA I keep getting described as a tall black drag queen, but I dont think of myself as a drag queen,
CHRISTOPHER RAND I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When th...
KAJAL AGGARWAL Do you know what i hate? I hate people who hides behind GOD, it doesn't matter how much u pray or fa...
CRYSTAL DEONARINE people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ...
RICHARD PRATT I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.
AYN RAND Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
THORNTON WILDER My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it w...
BILL BURR I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, ...
DAVID BECKHAM As Wyatt explains, it's clearly John F. Kennedy. But he also was reminded of Robert Kennedy when he ...
ANN SCANLON I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to dri...
GENNA RULON I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I t...
KEN LIVINGSTONE dont let anyone break your heart i say you should break there heart before they break yours
DALLY SALAD It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrin...
KEVIN KLINE I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal...
HAILEY BALDWIN If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely...
DESMOND BAGLEY Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon onesel...
GEORGE MEREDITH I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.
JULIAN CLARY A fool who thinks that he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man. The fool who thinks that he...
SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BUDDHISM I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science backgr...
MICHAEL BIRCH I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself ...
AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform cert...
FRANZ LISZT I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
ELAINE STRITCH When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy,...
ROBERT ENGLUND You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents ...
LAURIE R. KING [Don't take critics seriously. As Robert Morley puts it:] If the critics were always right, we shoul...
JEAN SIBELIUS Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
JOY DAVIDMAN If I play to my best form, I could beat anyone. I dream to win this tournament, although it is diffi...
ANDREI PAVEL I really like the fact that I can have a life for myself and have enough time to have a great time w...
DAWN LANDAU To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS Many years spent contemplating life, finding myself was the key. Then to find out from a fool that i...
RISHNIEL I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We're delighted to support anyone who works in that area.
FERGAL MURRAY I am an artist who works with Lego.
NATHAN SAWAYA I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.
BOB NEWHART Honesty's a fool And loses that it works for.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a ...
CHARLIE FINK Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for no...
THUCYDIDES What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know wh...
ROBIN S. SHARMA A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.
GRACE JONES Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a l...
ANDERSON COOPER A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
ARTHUR GOLDEN Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and ki...
WESLEY MORRIS I want your scent to intoxicate my passions to the point where lust is merely a word, dancing upon o...
VIRGINIA ALISON One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, withou...
B. CARROLL REECE I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of ri...
VITRUVIUS Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense."
"Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter...
SIMONE ELKELES I say I dont sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I dont sleep with happily married men.
BRITT EKLAND I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote mysel...
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for hi...
GUY KAWASAKI What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.
I...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
DANNY KAYE My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their ...
CHARLES SPURGEON I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to ge...
ZACH JOHNSON It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
MORLEY SAFER McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determina...
MORLEY SAFER Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a...
HOWARD MORLEY People coming from Lakeview Drive have trouble getting out at that intersection. I just came from th...
DENNIS MORLEY It should help slow things down through the rest of town.
DENNIS MORLEY They (drivers) are getting faster, up to 45 mph at times. People are complaining. It's hard enough t...
DENNIS MORLEY Too many people ignore it. Either it needs to be better enforced or removed.
DENNIS MORLEY Most of the time people tell me it's about time someone looked into this.
DENNIS MORLEY Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY