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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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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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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The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
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College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.
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Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.
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A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Many times, I was told what to lead with on MSNBC. Many times, I was told what I was not going to do.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.
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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.
