James Thurber Quotes
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
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For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
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My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
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I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
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To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
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Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.
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My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
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It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.
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When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
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Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
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I'm at the point where you look back on your life and reflect. I've always been an unbelievable critic of me. If we lost a game, I blamed myself every night. I'm very proud of some of the things I did as an athlete, as an executive.
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When I'm training for a fight, I work out two or three times a day for five days a week.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
