Simon Cameron Quotes
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
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Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.
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When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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Spend your energy on things that make a difference.
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The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.
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I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.
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The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.
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I walk the world in wonder.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.
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Order and system are nobler things than power.
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You like more the people that you work with, you believe more in them, you share some fantastic moments and that habit of winning, winning, winning... after you win, you don't want to stop winning.
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To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.
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A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
