Raymond Chandler Quotes
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Writers are so important.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
