William Slim (Bill Slim) Quotes
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.
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My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.
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Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a reading tool. The attention users pay to the streams on mobile is far less than on the desktop.
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The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.
