Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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‘Why are pictures like this allowed?’ he suddenly cried. He had stopped in front of a colonial print in which the martyrdom of St Agatha was depicted with all the fervour that incompetence could command.‘It’s only a saint,’ said Lady Peaslake, placidly raising her head.‘How disgusting – and how ugly’‘Yes, very. It’s Roman Catholic.’
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How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?
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In July 1944, at the Mount Washington Hotel in the resort town of Bretton Woods in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White created the New World Order.
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As a society, we're failing. In so many ways. Such high incarceration rates of underrepresented minorities ultimately means we're missing out on great potential from black and Latino communities. Yes, there's immense talent brewing even within the most impoverished neighborhoods. Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
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I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable.
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You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.
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You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.
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Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
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A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
