William Stanley Jevons Quotes
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
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We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.
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Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.
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I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.
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My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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Property is only another name for monopoly.
