Steven Pressfield Quotes
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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I'm a normal guy.
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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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I have more nuclear physicists living in my district than in any other district.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.
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The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
