Nathanael West Quotes
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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I'm a carnivore. I really like to eat meat. I crave iron, so I am definitely not the kind of person who you will find eating a salad.
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I am a very physical actor. I generally use my hands a lot.
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You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.
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As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
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I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
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Scrambled eggs are so simple, but they don't wait or taste better cold!
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It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.
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I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.
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I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
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Usually on 'Yo Gabba Gabba,' we eat healthy and organic. We don't play.
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You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.
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Each shot is important.
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Life is a dance, enjoy every step.
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness 'to act alone,' its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
