Frederick Soddy Quotes
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
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What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.
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With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
