Texas Guinan (Mary Louise Cecilia) Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
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I am a normal guy.
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There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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I'm from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.
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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
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What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?
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Business needs to move to adopt much more scalable pull platforms. When we talk about pull platforms, often people focus on one level of pull, which is what we call access. It's simply, if I have a need, I can make a request, get the resource or the information I need when needed.
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These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it’s about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it’s about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it’s not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That’s a mistake.
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A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.
