Washington Irving Quotes
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Quotes to Explore
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
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I like a pretty relaxed, fun set. Everyone knows they can bring whoever they want and hang out.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'
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We don't own a TV. My kids are always outdoors.
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
