Walter Scott Quotes
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
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Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.
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It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.
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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
