Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
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Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
