Sql Replace Smart Quotes & Sayings

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in ... the part he plays. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of the colonizers do understand and quickly retreat, while some, because they are stupid, continue colonizing others, increasing the suffering, deaths, injuries, defeat and humiliation. The people colonized by Abyssinia will be free. Eritrea will be free, and they cannot refuse to let them be free. Western Somalia will be free, and they cannot refuse to grant it freedom. The numerous Abo will be free because this is history, and no one can prevent the sunshine from reaching us. — Siad Barre

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle,
When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm. — Richard Wilbur

We may go up, we may go down, we may do a 360 but still find ourselves here, on safe ground. — Alysha Millet

When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along. — P. J. O'Rourke

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future. — Bill Bryson

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that. — Robert Pattinson

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.' — Willem Dafoe

Is it then so sad a thing to die? — Virgil

If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal. — Nia Vardalos