Raymond Chandler Quotes
If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
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Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
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The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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Fathers, I do not practice. I’m not religious in life, but when I perform 'The Creation of the World' and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of 'Good and Evil', then God enters in me.
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Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.
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And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
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With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?
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You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really.
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
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After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
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If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
