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"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
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"No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney."

"If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

"It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple."

"I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original."
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"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."

"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."

"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
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