Walter Bagehot Quotes
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future, a party whose leaders are inclined to shoot from the hip, a party that has never been willing to put its investment in human beings who are below them in economic and social status.
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On presidential candidates not condemning the controversial MoveOn.org ad in The New York Times. If you're not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous, outrageous attack such as that, then I don't know how you're tough enough to be president of the United States.
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Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.
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When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They didn't have 100 percent cotton sheets at mass market in 1987. We made those in yellow and pink and pale blue.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
