Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
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There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
