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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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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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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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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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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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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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The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
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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.
