Adolf Anderssen Quotes
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
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There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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The United States while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none, it being a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, so war is better than tribute.
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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
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They acknowledged the problem of market timing, but then allowed a favored client to engage in that harmful practice. The departure of these board members should sound an alarm for all those who serve in similar capacities.
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Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.
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When I feel like it's time for me to say something and it's time for me to speak up and allow my emotions to get into the games and practice, then I will say something.
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It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
