Alexander Fraser Tytler Quotes
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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Men frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. ...Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who think they are wise.
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I just try to go out and play as hard as I can and let the results take care of themselves.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.
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'An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.'
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No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
