Alvan Macauley Quotes
Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
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Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
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I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
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When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.
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To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.
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My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.
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If you leave yourself open to learning, then you can benefit and enjoy an incredibly rewarding and insightful experience. These experiences are the driving force in my life, and they keep me alive and inspire not only my music but also my everyday life.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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I think anything you listen to is going to be different.
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Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.
