Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
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Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.
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Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
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I chose 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' specifically 'cause I had just made 'The Bourne Identity' and made a film that glamorized being an action hero, and I wanted to make the exact opposite. I wanted to make a movie that glamorized maintaining a marriage, and that made the action hero part seem easy and made the marriage part seem hard.
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You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
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The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
