Wendell Willkie Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
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I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.
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We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
