Robert Frost Quotes
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
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The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
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There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year - especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don't work that way.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
