Walter Scott Quotes
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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I'm a storyteller – that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
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I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'
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I feel for the players.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.
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Hours are golden links, God's tokenReaching heaven; but one by oneTake them, lest the chain be brokenEre the pilgrimage be done.
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I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'
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The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in it, specifically the way we mixed music and comedy.
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Change is never a matter of ability, it's always a matter of motivation.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe!
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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
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NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
