William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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I have never used steroids. Period.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
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Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.
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If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors -- security and otherwise.
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We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
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He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
