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 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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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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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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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
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At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
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Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Our problem at the moment is a problem of success.
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I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.
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I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.
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Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
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When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
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Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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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.
