Norman R. Augustine Quotes
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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I would love to play 'Wonder Woman'; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.
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Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
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At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.
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I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.
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Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.
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I've said to [Donald Trump], and I think others have said to him that the day that he is the President of the United States, there are world capitals and financial markets and people all around the world who take really seriously what he says, and in a way that's just not true before you're actually sworn in as president.
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Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
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I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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We in middle age require adventure.
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
