John Galsworthy Quotes

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

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• It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
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  • May

• In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • School
  • Done
  • Studying

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
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  • Never

• I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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  • Drummer

• It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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  • Strong

• I've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
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• Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
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  • Myself
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• I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Life
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• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • Lies

• Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

  

  Kate Klise
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• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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  • Think

• Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.

  

  Earl Wilson
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  • Boss
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• Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

  

  Kanye West
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• Because of all this, I am at a loss to know whether to weep more for those they killed or those that are captured: or indeed for these men themselves whom the devil has taken fast for his slaves. In truth, they will bind themselves alongside him in the pains of the everlasting pit: for 'he who sins is a slave already' and is to be called 'son of the devil.'

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Taken

• Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

  

  William Gurnall
  • Strong
  • Christian
  • Heaven

• In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

  

  Yelena Baturina
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  • Construction
  • Real estate

• Divestitures have long been the preferred remedy for horizontal mergers, where there's an overlap between the two companies. Airlines, for example, may have to sell routes or airport gates where the two airlines compete; cable operators may have to sell operations in cities where both companies operate.

  

  James B. Stewart
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  • May

• A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

  

  John Galsworthy
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