Samuel Pepys Quotes
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.
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I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.
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I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
