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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No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
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I think the building is in very good condition.
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You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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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.
