Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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Many support what I am doing.
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The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to matching.
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Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
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Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
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I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
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I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.
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Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.
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There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill battle.
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The subject may appear an insignificant one, but we shall see that it possesses some interest; and the maxim 'de minimis lex non curat,' does not apply to science.
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That Big Science culture in the USA, and similar groups elswhere, tended to have separate, direct access to government and hence to funding sources. It was independent to a great extent of the rest of science, of which it was never a majority component except in funding.
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Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
