Walter Raleigh Quotes
It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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We founded thatgamecompany to push the boundary of video games as an interactive medium.
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Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.
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The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of filmmakers are interested in exploring.
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It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
