Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Daniel Boone
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
Sam Kinison
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
Barbara Sukowa
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
Karin Slaughter
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
Adam Grant
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
Garry Shandling
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
Larry Hagman
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
Orson Pratt
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
Harold Wilson
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
Nadia Comaneci
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
Tariq Ali
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
Lady Gaga
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
Oliver North
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
Zev Yaroslavsky
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard
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I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing.
David Henry Hwang
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We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.
Kathie Lee Gifford
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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.
Francis Bacon
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The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
Sidney Blumenthal
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Being fit is almost as important to me as my face. And for me, it's a combination of being spiritually and physically fit. There are guys who want to look good, and there are guys who want to perform at their best. Being fit is about being able to perform at your best, not necessarily just looking your best.
Mark Wahlberg
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The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield