William Graham Sumner Quotes
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I can paint in jail.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after that, it was 'TV actor.' You go, 'When did that happen? Everything else has been erased?'
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If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
