Jim Davis Quotes
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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I have never used steroids. Period.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
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Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.
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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
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In manufacturing food for its own cells, the plant is producing a supply of food that will be available for the sustenance of animal cells also. Thus the entire animal World may be said to be a vast parasitic colony as absolutely dependent upon the vegetable colony for its essential food supplies as any other parasite is dependent upon its host.
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Nature has had regard in everything no less to the end than to the beginning and the continuance, just like a man who throws up a ball. What good is it then for the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it to come down... what good is it to the bubble while it holds together, or what harm when it is burst?
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You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.
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My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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Enjoy every moment because it is so good and just a testament to all the work you've put in.
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The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.
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I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
