Samuel Beckett Quotes
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During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
