Joseph J. Ellis Quotes
Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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There's always rhythm going in my mind. … I'm either singing them - June will tell you, I'm either singing them, or I have got the beat going from one, or I'm writing one.
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First there was space-endless, limitless space, so far from everything, so brutal, so frigid, so uncaring that it numbed the mind, not so much from fear or loneliness as from the realization that in this eternity of space the thing that was himself was dwarfed to an insignificance no yardstick could measure.
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My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
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In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.
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I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
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I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.
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I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.
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Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.
