Simeon Strunsky Quotes
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.
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No one is beat till he quits,No one is through till he stops,No matter how hard Failure hits,No matter how often he drops,A fellow's not down till he liesIn the dust and refuses to rise.
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Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
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In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.
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On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.
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My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
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I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.
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I'm always buying nice watches for my husband - Bentley Breitlings.
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My eccentricity became direction.
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As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.
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Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.
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I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...
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I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
