Plutarch Quotes
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I am a normal guy.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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Prayer is so complicated.
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When you have the biggest record in the country, everybody wants you; everybody needs you, and they need you now.
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Building companies rules of the game have all changed today. It used to cost millions of dollars to do anything substantial. You'd get VC backing & then you'd hire the team to build it. Now it's deploy or die.
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I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
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If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.
