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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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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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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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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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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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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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'm very fortunate.
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Every time I sit down with a powerful working mom, I wrestle with whether to ask the 'mom question.' I don't want to be part of perpetuating a double standard by asking women in business a question that men are not asked.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
