Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.
Quotes to Explore
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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I did not know that.
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Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.
