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.
Larry Niven
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid
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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.
Wayne Newton
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The environment shapes people's actions.
B. F. Skinner
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I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
Idries Shah
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
Diana Ross
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Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.
Rachel Caine
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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.
Albert Bandura
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I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
Louise Brooks
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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.
T. L. Osborn
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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.
W. C. Fields
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Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
Kirby Larson
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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.
Barack Obama
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You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
Brian Tracy
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
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Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.
Jason Mraz
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
George Eliot
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It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.
Ariel Pink
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Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Simon Travaglia