William Halsey (Bill Halsey) Quotes
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.
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I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.
