Washington Irving Quotes
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.
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I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word 'Alzheimer's disease.'
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The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
