Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
Nargis Fakhri
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
Flume
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
Nathan Myhrvold
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
Jackie Robinson
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
Naomi Watts
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
Lana Wood
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
Zack Wheat
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
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It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
Naval Ravikant
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
Nancy Duarte
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I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
Flula Borg
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
Barbara Kingsolver
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You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts.
Barack Obama
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
Fernando Pessoa
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
Tanith Lee
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No man ever entered the White House under the burden of a more inconvenient past. And no President was ever denounced with greater ferocity. - said of Andrew Jackson
H. L. Mencken
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There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.
Irvine Welsh
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Under the yaller pines I house,When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,An' hear among their furry boughsThe baskin' west-wind purr contented.
James Russell Lowell
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus
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I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors... understand that that's part of the craft.
Andy Serkis
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
George Bernard Shaw
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
Hamilton Wright Mabie