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The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
On 'The Chase,' I don't know what questions are going to appear, so they deliberately try and catch me out.
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
For me, going to the gym for an hour is important not because I appear on screen, but because I am healthy.
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
The overexposure of coaches is not a good thing, we appear too much in the media, we just want to work hard.
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
Tus Ojitos' is an incredible and romantic Peruvian waltz; I tried to make it appear that the heart is singing.
It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.
The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.
The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!
We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.
The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
Some actors merely have to appear before the camera and they are able to convey exactly what the director wants.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
I weighed 100 kg while shooting 'Paatal Lok.' I am 6 feet and therefore it might not appear that I weigh so much.
My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the way you appear.
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
I would love to appear in 'Scandal,' something like that, or 'Grey's Anatomy' because I think they're incredible.
I only ever agreed to appear in 'Corrie' for two months, but I ended up staying a lot longer. I really enjoyed it.
Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Thanks to Cheran, I play a city girl in 'Mayakkannadi.' I appear in trendy costumes and have more scope to perform.
The best players want to play for the best clubs in Europe and appear in top competitions like the Champions League.
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
I didn't want to end up in Hollywood having facelifts and my hair dyed blond so I could appear on my own album cover.