John W. Foster Quotes
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
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Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.
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Young men often seek tests and trials, and to me, BUD/S training - basic underwater demolition/SEAL - seemed like the ultimate test.
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There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for power, they would be ineffective. Their task is not "seize power" (those who use this term show that they seek personal power for themselves) but to abolish the bases for power. Power to all means power to nobody in particular.
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I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
