Quotes 121 till 140 of 3130.
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
Source: Het leven van Pi -
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''
― Henry Ward Beecher
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''I have no name:'' I am but two days old. ''What shall I call thee?'' I happy am, ''Joy is my name.'' sweet joy befall thee!
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''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.
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'Enlightened Rogues' we made like the earlier ones: whatever tune came up, whatever direction it went in, that's the way it went. That's what we'll always do. I think if we ever stop doin' that, we ought to quit.
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'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
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'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
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'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
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'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.
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'Superman' has always been about Lois Lane, Superman and Clark Kent and this love triangle between these three people who really are only two people.
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'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.
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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
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... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
Source: Wings of Fire
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