Charles Beaumont Quotes
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
Jack Kilby -
AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
Barry Sternlicht -
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl Marx -
I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
Carly Fiorina
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
Vicente del Bosque -
An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
Emil Cioran -
I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
James Brown -
We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.
Oswald Chambers -
Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .
J. G. Ballard -
It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
Jennifer Donnelly
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.
Heraclitus -
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
Virginia Woolf -
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.
Albert Einstein -
The whole end of speech is to be understood.
Confucius -
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
Larry Wall -
Many traumatized people seem to seek out experiences that would repel most of us,14 and patients often complain about a vague sense of emptiness and boredom when they are not angry, under duress, or involved in some dangerous activity.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.
Jay-Z -
I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.
Bruno Tonioli -
Honest men make unconvincing liars,' I lied convincingly.
Charles Beaumont