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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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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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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Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
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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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Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.
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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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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
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I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.
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Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
