Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.
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I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
