Walter Scott Quotes
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, ’T is a necessity.Of heaven above the firmest proof We fundamental know, Except for its marauding hand, It had been heaven below.
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I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
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If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.
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I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.
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The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.
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There's a gude time coming.
