William Howard Taft Quotes
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
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I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
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My perfect beach town isn't a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It's a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants - where the island-wide dress code is 'no shoes, no shirt, no problem.'
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
