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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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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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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Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.
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I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.
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When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
