"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."

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Source : Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (fict. name.) (1820). “Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady”, p.114

Samuel Richardson

#Tears Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Poor Quotes

“I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.”
“Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?”

Source : "Word Origin Comics: Being a Prude While Maintaining Your Pride" by Larry Paros, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.
“I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.”
“I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when I started playing shows with my siblings.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.”
“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.”
“The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichÃ©s know, is a scoreless tie.”
“There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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