Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
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What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.
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I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.
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We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.
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Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations.
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As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
