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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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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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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I don't know, maybe I'm immature, but I still find it funny if I dump cold water on my girlfriend when she's in the shower.
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America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
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Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.
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Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years
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Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
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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.
