Abraham Cowley Quotes
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.
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Japanimation is a whole different art form.
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Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.
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We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.
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You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.
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His time is forever, everywhere his place.