Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.
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If something catches your attention, it's probably going to catch the attention of others, too.
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I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again.
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When I was putting the 'Best of Hollywood' book together, I sat down and added up just the list of Westerns I've done, and it came to well over 200.
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The expertise offered by John Jay College in this area is proving very valuable to us. The analysis and validation of international crime statistics from our member countries helps us to ensure that this material is of high quality, reliable and useful.
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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
