Charles Kettering Quotes
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Quotes to Explore
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
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No ally or adversary should ever doubt our strength and our resolve.
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It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
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To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all.. ..on the contrary it is realism of our time.
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ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
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We accept that there are legitimate casus belli: acts or situations 'provoking or justifying war'. The present debate feels off-centre, and faintly unreal, because the US and the UK are going to war for a new set of reasons (partly undisclosed) while continuing to adduce the old set of reasons (which in this case do not cohere or even overlap).
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Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
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Do It For The People Who Want To See You Fail.
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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
