Periander Quotes
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.
