William Stanley Jevons Quotes
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
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My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
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If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.
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When a child begins to play games... he enters the gateway to reason and imagination together.
