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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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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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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How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
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I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.
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The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.
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More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward.
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I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.
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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.
