Barry S. Strauss Quotes
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.
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America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.
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I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.
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We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
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At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
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Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
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If we want everything to stay the same, everything has to change.
