Simon Cameron Quotes
I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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We all deal with being unfairly judged.
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Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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Rufus because my diaphragm gets a workout while trying to utilize the 18 vocal sounds a mole makes. Chuckie because ... he's an asthmatic with five personalities rolled into one-plus I have to do the voice the way Christine Cavanaugh did it for 10 years.
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Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
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That house with its remoteness and the islands going down like soft gongs all the time into the amazing blue, and I shall never,never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold. But then of course ...youth does mean happiness, it does mean love, and that's something you can't get over.
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'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.
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Mania is a wonderful feeling.
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The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
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Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.
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I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.
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We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.
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The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.
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Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.
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People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.
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I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my kids have gotten used to wearing shoes.'
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I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.
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For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.
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I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.
