Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
It seems so sad to see the little dirt-grimed brats try to play in the noisy courts and muddy streets. Poor little uncared-for, unwanted human atoms, they are not children. Children are bright-eyed, chubby, and shy. These are dingy, screeching elves, their tiny faces seared and withered, their baby laughter cracked and hoarse.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Politics ruins the character.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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I always see everything in a positive light.
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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!
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I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.
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It seems so sad to see the little dirt-grimed brats try to play in the noisy courts and muddy streets. Poor little uncared-for, unwanted human atoms, they are not children. Children are bright-eyed, chubby, and shy. These are dingy, screeching elves, their tiny faces seared and withered, their baby laughter cracked and hoarse.
