William Stanley Jevons Quotes
As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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Any time you make the transfer of 'I've created something, and I'm giving it to you, and I hope it makes you happy,' that's good.
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The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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I think it is unwise to shut down the government.
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What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
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As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.
