Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Too clever is dumb.
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During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
