John Tyndall Quotes
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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I'm always honest.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.
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People are used to being coddled.
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Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
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I really thought to myself, 'If I'm going to do anything in this world, I am going to be the best I can be.' I have a tennis coach that has taken me as far as my body can go. I hired a private skiing coach during my birthday week. I have a private yoga instructor. I just don't understand why you wouldn't give yourself every advantage.
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Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
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I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.
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It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.