Amelia Barr Quotes
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
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Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
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Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.
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If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different.
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I would never get into the music industry per se, but listening to music really helps me to concentrate. It's just a nice way for me to vibe and chill. There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.
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Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
