William Stanley Jevons Quotes
Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.
