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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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.
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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
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People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.
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People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.
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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.
