Samuel Beckett Quotes
I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of - how shall I say, I don’t know.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
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Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?
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Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future.
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I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of - how shall I say, I don’t know.
