Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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I do not like violence.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I love New York. Love it.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.
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It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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Storytelling is always evolving, but if you allow people with new voices and perspectives to come in, you open audiences up to different walks of life.
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What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.
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I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.
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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
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I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
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No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
