Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.
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An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
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It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
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You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
