Charles Kettering Quotes
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.
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I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was reading manga, and I read 'Death Note' in real time in Japanese.
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I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
