Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
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We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
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The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.
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Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
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The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
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I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.
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Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
