William R. Alger Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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This love is silent.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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Neither Lynn Margulis nor I have ever proposed a teleological hypothesis. Nowhere in our writing do we express the idea that planetary self-regulation is purposeful, or involves planetary foresight or planning by the biota. ...Yet we met persistent, almost dogmatic, criticism that our hypothesis is teleological.
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A warrior has only one true friend: himself. So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
