John Lubbock Quotes
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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I had a lot of great bosses - I worked for Gina Prince-Bythewood for two years, I worked for Ava Duvernay as a PA on her first narrative film, and I worked with Mara Brock Akil, so a lot of wonderful role models.
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If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.
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If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.
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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
