Samuel Richardson Quotes
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I hate competition.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
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All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
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Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
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It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
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I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
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My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
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The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
