Steven Moffat (Steven William Moffat) Quotes
The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
Steven Moffat
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
Ted Lange
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
J. Maarten Troost
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
Gabriel Iglesias
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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
Nathan Myhrvold
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The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.
Jay Samit
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I wanted to play baseball!
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.
Barbara Wood
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Life begins at age forty.
Walter B. Pitkin
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I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.
Katherine Waterston
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The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
Steven Moffat