Robert W. Service Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
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I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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If it be of the highest importance to man, as an individual, that his religion should be true, the case of society is not the same. Society has no future life to hope for or to fear; and provided the citizens profess a religion, the peculiar tenets of that religion are of very little importance to its interests.
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Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.
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Principal Skinner's kitchen catches on fire in the middle of dinner with Superintendant Chalmers
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Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.
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I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.
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Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.
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The Fed should not be responding to the ups and downs of the markets, and it is certainly not our policy to do so. But when there are significant financial developments, it's incumbent on us to ask ourselves what is causing them.
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I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.
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Around 10:30 or 11, I'll make poached eggs and maybe some Brussels sprouts - kind of random, but delicious. Sometimes I'll do bacon. I've been on a more fat/protein diet with fewer carbs and less saturated stuff, which has actually been feeling really good.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
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There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
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I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.
