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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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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.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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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.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
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Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia. (p. 130)
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I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.
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But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.
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You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself. You're not going to be asking your parents.
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The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
