Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Hate
  • Parks

• My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Up
  • Time
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• It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dream

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Cool

• Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Start

• It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Day
  • Broken
  • Stand

• You are only as good as the people you dress.

  

  Halston
  • People
  • Good
  • Dress

• The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Only

• Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • New
  • New York

• With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Up
  • Character
  • You

• In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Great
  • Done
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• I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

  

  Yahoo Serious
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  • You
  • Film

• Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Team
  • Model
  • Management

• Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Reality
  • Changes
  • Fame

• If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Start

• I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud a while ago. He is, as you probably know, an extremely erudite thinker in terms of religious philosophy and just thinking about a modern take on something really, really ancient, about how to imagine living beyond any physical bounds, which we're on the verge of now.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Thinking
  • Religious
  • Philosophy

• Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Debate
  • Administration

• Faith is pretty much the essence of mine and Grace's being.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Pretty
  • Faith

• Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield