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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I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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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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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
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Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
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At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
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Play me no plays.
