Ezra Pound Quotes
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
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I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
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I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
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When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.
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Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
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The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.
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A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
