Neal Knox (Clifford Neal Knox) Quotes
You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.

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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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We always trend set.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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I want to fight. I want to fight. I want to unify titles.
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You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.