Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.
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The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.
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I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
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Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
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I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
