William H. Seward Quotes
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.
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The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them.
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You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.
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One has never said better how much 'humanism', 'normality', 'quality of life' were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
