Robert W. Service Quotes
This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads.
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If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
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I've been a free man.
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Quoting Marley as a reason to stay stoned 24/7 doesn’t hold water for me. Blessings to all my brethren and sistren!!!!!
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We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that.
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This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
