Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
Quotes to Explore
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
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I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.
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There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
