Walter Besant Quotes
Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
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I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
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I'm not a bad golfer, and I'm not the best, either.
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When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.
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But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre, and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
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Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.
