Charles Fort Quotes
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
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I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
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I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
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I was shooting for 'Kahaani' and 'GOW' back to back. I was in a village on work, where a man extended a paper to me. For a minute I thought he wanted another actor's autograph. I looked back and forth, but there was no one. That was quite an experience.
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Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.
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If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.
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It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.
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I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
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I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.
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Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!
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When we are on tour we also take chances.
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Ch. 6 at resologist.net
