Charles Ritz Quotes
The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman

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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.
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I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. But it's great. I always bear in mind that the right place and time have a huge deal to do with it, and there are hugely talented actors who haven't had that break.
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The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.
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A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.
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Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.
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People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
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The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?
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Today we are announcing the selection of Lockheed Martin, ... This effort will deliver a new helicopter that provides essential improvement in the range, speed, communications capability and survivability necessary to efficiently and securely transport the president of the United States.
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The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman