Simon Travaglia Quotes
Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
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The environment shapes people's actions.
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I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.
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When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist.
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I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
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The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered.
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
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When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.
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You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.
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Tiny actions can fundamentally alter your relationship to the world for the better.
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...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.
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The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.
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I totally ignore people who criticize me for coming to Israel, including whats-his-name [Roger Waters]. If he were to contact me, I would tell him to tell it where the sun don't shine.
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It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
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Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
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I didn’t get into this business for other people to know my name.
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I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.
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Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
