Cecil Rhodes Quotes
When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I love books.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I'm saying there's plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets.
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
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I've never been traditional, and I hate conforming to anything.
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I think people know what they're getting with my name, because they've seen my specials on Netflix.
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Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
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I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients.
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When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.
