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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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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I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.
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I don't want to die. I can't wrap my head around the concept of death because I'm totally atheist. There's nothing after life in my head, whether that's right or wrong.
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
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The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.
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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.
