Alexandra David-Neel Quotes
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
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But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
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People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not twice but enough that, behaviorally, they start to feel like, 'That's my channel.'
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Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.
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The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'
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The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
