Walter Scott Quotes
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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Anyone who takes a seat in the Bundestag does so within a Europeanized constitutional framework.
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I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.
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I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide.
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There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.
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Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
