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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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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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.
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I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
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I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.
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One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
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As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
