Steven Saylor Quotes
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
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Peu de généreux vont jusqu'à dédaigner,Après un sceptre acquis, la douceur de régner.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.
