James Whitcomb Riley Quotes
It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
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God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.
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With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.
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I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
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Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
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It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
