Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
