Mark Strand Quotes
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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A hard man is good to find.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.
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I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
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Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.
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In the family, no one is ever pushed. I came to politics spontaneously; there was no obligation. It has to happen naturally.
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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
