Sam Walton Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.
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If we roam the whole area, eventually we're going to find it. It's out there somewhere.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
