Jerry Costello Quotes
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.
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I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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The Duke’s moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide.
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It is one thing, then, to say, 'The Bible contains the religion revealed by God,' and quite another to say, 'Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God.' If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.
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Nothing is that which fills no space. If one single point placed in a circle may be the starting point of an infinite number of lines, and the termination of an infinite number of lines, there must be an infinite number of points separable from this point, and these when reunited become one again; whence it follows that the part may be equal to the whole.
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Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
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I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.
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I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.
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Each individual bears within himself an ideal man, and to bring him forth in perfect form is his divinely imposed life-work.
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All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.
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We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.
