Simon Travaglia Quotes
Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Quotes to Explore
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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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We got in a situation where we were waiting for Kobe is hand to get hot. We started trying to force it in to him and that hurt us. Kobe had a hard time chasing Dixon around screens.
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Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
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The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.
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The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
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Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
