Jeremy Bentham Quotes
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
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We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.
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Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.
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I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.
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The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
