Charles William Eliot Quotes
You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
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Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
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Being a kid's not easy. You're transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you're out in the world.
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The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
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You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
