Walter Scott Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
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Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.
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'And now,' Herod calmly said, 'You can kill all the new-born....Kill them all....take your men and let your men take their swords. Make sure they're sharp. To Bethlehem. Hack. Lunge. Chop. Kill.'
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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.
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If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.
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I have and will continue to vigorously pursue opportunities in all mediums.
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It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!
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I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
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If you've ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won't allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you.
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Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
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I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.
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The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.
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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
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Oh for a blast of that dread horn on Fontarabian echoes borne!
