Doyle Brunson Quotes
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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The fans treated me royally.
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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-colored life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toiled after him in vain.
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Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.
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When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.
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I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.
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Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.
