Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
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In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
