Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes
There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!
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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House.
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I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
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Southern states simply do not believe in funding education to the extent that northern states do.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.
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There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.
