"Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs."

-- Adam Gopnik

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“I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.”
“The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.”

Source : Harold Nicolson (1943). “The Desire to Please: A Story of Hamilton Rowan and the United Irishmen”
“You should be treating yourself like you are your own best friend.”
“I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.”
“I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.”
“Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids.”
“I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.”

Source : "Q & A With Lesley Nicol of Downton Abbey: Salty Raspberry Meringue, Adventures in Pretend Cooking + How Mrs. Patmore is Like Gordon Ramsay". LA Weekly interview, www.laweekly.com. January 5, 2013.
“We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on it and then it falls down.”

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