Walter Scott Quotes
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Quotes to Explore
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
