Robert W. Service Quotes
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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Sic rerum summa novatursemper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt. augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantumet quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
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See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
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When I was growing up, all these superheroes were white. On some level, you put that out of your mind... but as you get older, you realize it's a very one-sided affair. So I'm very glad to see that these movies are becoming more diversified.
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I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.
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I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.
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I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
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I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.