Izaak Walton Quotes
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.
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It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
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The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
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I need to be loved. I need to be nurtured. I also need peace and stability in my relationships. I can't be in volatile relationships.
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The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
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While you can be trained and groomed to be a better actor, seasoning happens only to TV actors. TV actors shoot every day, and that makes a difference to the project. They are hard-working, but that's not taking anything away from the film actors.
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Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.
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A lot of Disney Channel actors and actresses, when they stop working for Disney Channel, they have a real aversion for not wanting to be remembered by Disney Channel.
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The way Jughead talks to Archie and vice versa is very much the way I would talk to my twin.
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I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?
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You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
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Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.'
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
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For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.
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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
