Stuart Rose (Stuart Alan Ransom Rose) Quotes
I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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Isaacs has a cheap Bic pen in his hand. He runs his fingers down the shaft, inverts it, runs his fingers down the shaft, over and over, in a motion that is mechanical rather than impatient.
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
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Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.
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I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
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Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
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Craig Ferguson: Do you do therapy?Hugh Laurie: I see a gentleman once a week.Craig Ferguson: I love it, I'm a great convert.Hugh Laurie: Therapy?Craig Ferguson: No, just seeing a gentleman once a week.
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As a stylist, it is important for me to always steer my clients in the right direction and to push them when I feel it is necessary.
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I do think image is important in a band, because when I go see a show, I want to see a show; I don't want to just listen to the music.
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I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.
