Charles Lamb Quotes
Riddle of destiny, who can showWhat thy short visit meant, or knowWhat thy errand here below?
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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Amur n'est pruz se n'est egals.
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My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?
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Science fiction is boring when someone starts explaining the science to me.
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I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].
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Riddle of destiny, who can showWhat thy short visit meant, or knowWhat thy errand here below?
