William Halsey (Bill Halsey) Quotes
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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You have to be yourself.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.
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Out of the night that covers me, Black is the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
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If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.
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General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
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It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people who've been thrown out of work can be re-employed AND people who are new to the workforce can be employed. And that is going to be very difficult.
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There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
