William Osler Quotes
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.
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You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
