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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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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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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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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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In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
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I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.
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It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.
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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.
