Joshua Reynolds Quotes
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
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Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
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We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
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Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
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It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!
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I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.
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It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.
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PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.
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It's been incredibly frustrating. The US government gave permission for the doctors to live in America, in freedom.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
