Walter Scott Quotes
You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness; the value of these toys, ten times multiplied, would not influence half so much as your slightest wish.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness; the value of these toys, ten times multiplied, would not influence half so much as your slightest wish.
