Samuel Foote Quotes
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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Fly-fishing is really addictive.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
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A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Garry Kasparov -
You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?
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If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
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Deserve your dream.
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
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If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case it becomes science fiction. The only thing that'll turn a story with a rocketship in it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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Play me no plays.
