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We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.
Author:
Roy Wood
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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
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Prince William
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Edmund Waller
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Madame Swetchine
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I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
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Terence Stamp
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Author:
Robert South
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The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
Author:
William Smith
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There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."
Author:
John Searle
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American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
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Diane Sawyer
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If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'
Author:
Lee Ryan
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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.
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Janet Reno
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A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
Author:
Karel Reisz
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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Author:
Charles Reade
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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
Author:
Jane Quinn
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One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
Author:
Willard Quine
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Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.
Author:
Paul Prudhomme
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Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
Author:
Samuel Prout
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I didn't fancy any of my teachers.
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Katie Price
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I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.
Author:
Kelly Preston
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
Author:
Colin Powell
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Author:
Barack Obama
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I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
Author:
Kristi Noem
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A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
Author:
Judd Nelson
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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
Author:
Gerry Mulligan
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Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.
Author:
John Motson
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Author:
Golda Meir
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Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting.
Author:
Debi Mazar
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A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
Author:
Shirley Manson
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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John Lyly
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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
Author:
Walter Lord
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I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.
Author:
James Longstreet
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I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
Author:
Wilfrid Laurier
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Author:
Walter Landor
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I fancy our chances at the European Championships.
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Frank Lampard
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Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
Author:
David Knopfler
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When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
Author:
Oliver Kahn
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You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.
Author:
Henry Irving
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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
Author:
David Hume
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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Horace
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I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.
Author:
John Hooker
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Author:
Lillian Hellman
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
Author:
Owen Hart
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Author:
Ian Hacking
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Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
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Jeff Greenfield
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Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
Author:
Hugh Grant
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Johann Goethe
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The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.
Author:
Todd Gitlin
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
Author:
Barry Gibb
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I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
Author:
Jodie Foster
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I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Author:
Maria Edgeworth
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I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him.
Author:
Minnie Driver
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Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
Author:
Ray Davies
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I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.
Author:
Evan Dando
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And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
Author:
Hart Crane
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Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.
Author:
Marie Corelli
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I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
Author:
Jennifer Connelly
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I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!
Author:
Patsy Cline
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Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
Author:
Cliff Burton
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
Author:
Isambard Brunel
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I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.
Author:
Julie Benz
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'
Author:
Count Basie
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Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
Author:
Bernard Barton
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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
Author:
Edward Barnard
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I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
Author:
William Banting
