William Thurston Quotes
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.
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Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
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Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
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Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.
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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.
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A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
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We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
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Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.
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If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
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Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
