Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven Quotes
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.
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There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
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Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
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I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.
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I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.
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God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
