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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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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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'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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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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We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.
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I've never played the PR game.
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Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
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A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy; you give off a glow - or at least that is what my mum would say!
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I drank because I enjoyed it. I was happy sitting at the end of the bar on my own, reading the paper. I've always enjoyed my own company, and that stems from riding alone. I never trained with anyone - and I still don't. I've always been happy with my own thoughts, and that sums me up as an individual-pursuit rider.
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No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
