Herodotus Quotes
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?
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The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
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'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
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I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.
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Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
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If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.
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How is it possible to know so much about a person and yet know nothing at all?
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Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.
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As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
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Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
