William Petty Quotes
That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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Whenever I start something, I will always do everything I can to be the best at it.
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You have to stand up for some things in this world.
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If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
