Bret Harte Quotes
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.
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It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.
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The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
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Perseverance is my motto.
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O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.
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Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.
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I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
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Well, no offense:Thar ain't no senseIn gittin' riled.
