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DOCTOR WHO Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.
DOCTOR WHO First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
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BETTY WHO I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!
BETTY WHO According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly
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BETTY WHO There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
DR. WHO The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to f...
DOCTOR WHO Good place to put things - cellars.
DOCTOR WHO Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
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DOCTOR WHO Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
DOCTOR WHO Resistance is useless.
DOCTOR WHO The beauty of cinema is it's something that can be made locally and consumed the world over,
DOCTOR WHO I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.
DOCTOR WHO Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.
BETTY WHO See, it's packing up already!
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WALTER ANNENBERG Accomplish something every day of your life.
WALTER ANNENBERG People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
WALTER ANNENBERG The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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WALTER ANNENBERG Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
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WALTER ULBRICHT The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict...
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WALTER ULBRICHT This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
WALTER ULBRICHT It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
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WALTER SMITH Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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WALTER SMITH Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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WALTER SCOTT A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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WALTER SCOTT Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTT What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
WALTER SCOTT A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
WALTER SCOTT Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTT When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
WALTER SALLES We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred...
WALTER SALLES The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
WALTER SALLES The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that ...
WALTER SALLES The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for t...
WALTER SALLES The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations be...
WALTER SALLES That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you unde...
WALTER SALLES So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
WALTER SALLES So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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