William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.
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Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
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Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.
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Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
