Simon Cameron Quotes
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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 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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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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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
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Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
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Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
