Robert Frost Quotes
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Quotes to Explore
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines.
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go.
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The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
