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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Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
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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.
