Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
Jack Gleeson -
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin -
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
Maggie Smith -
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams -
When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
Yves Rossy -
What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
Parker Harris
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
Gary Gygax -
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
Carlisle Floyd -
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
M. Night Shyamalan -
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar
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One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
Abigail Washburn -
There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
Fay Wray -
The public has become my fairy godmother.
Eartha Kitt -
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals -
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
Daisaku Ikeda -
There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.
Daniel Barenboim
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Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
Mary Todd Lincoln -
I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
Taron Egerton -
Speculation replaces fact. It's very easy to see news outlets running with information that is unconfirmed or erroneous.
Doug Ducey -
Oh my god will you shut the front door already!
Alex Riley -
Do not block the way of inquiry.
Charles Sanders Peirce