A. A. Milne Quotes
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
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Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.
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The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.
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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
