Robert W. Service Quotes
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I'm a very jaded and cynical person.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle.
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Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever.
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I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
