Klemens von Metternich Quotes
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
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On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.
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So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.
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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
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The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.
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The reason I didn't come up was that I wanted to give him the space to perform and be himself. It's all part of the plan.
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I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.
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I was disappointed and in a little bit of shock. I had a really hard time with a couple of jumps in the warm-up and I just couldn't get over it. I definitely didn't think I was going to get any medal at all at the end of the program, so it was a nice surprise.
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Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
