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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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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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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I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
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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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There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
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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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There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
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¿Tienen algo que ver con los intereses de los humildes las querellas retóricas de los partidos burgueses?
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No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.
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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.
