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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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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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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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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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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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
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Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the beach, there were a high percentage of beach beauties sitting very close to us and/or sauntering repeatedly past. And he never looked up once. I snort. "You poor handsome thing. If only you were ugly, then girls wouldn't have to throw themselves at you all the time. I could break your perfect nose for you, if it'd make your life easier.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Property is only another name for monopoly.
