William Howard Taft Quotes
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
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A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
