William Whipple Quotes
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
W. Daniel Hillis
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Let us have peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
Radha Mitchell
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
Walter Kirn
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
Ram Charan
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
Harlan Coben
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards
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Nobody is faster than me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
Pat Buchanan
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I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.
Jack Gantos
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
Vicki Lawrence
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My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
Nate Robinson
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
Aaron Carter
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I'll accept that. But I'm not a complete psychopath.
Jocko Willink
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I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.
Bob Saget
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Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.
Michael Shannon
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I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading those papers, digging into that lively mishmash of opinion for drift, a sense of what to see, what to hear, what to read, etc. - and I'd like to think that scene's still vital, although I understand there's been a fair amount of conglomerating, which would seem to undercut its radical roots, its funky local flavor. I'd encourage any writer with an eye for life and an ear for prose to give it a try. You can work out your chops just fine in newsprint.
Charles D'Ambrosio
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The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
William Whipple