William Rowan Hamilton Quotes
Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
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A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.
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On the one hand I have very traditional values: I'm looking for love and want a baby one day. On the other hand, I have a secret and rebel side, that I maybe took from an Australian mom who handed down to me the love for adventure and freedom. And sometimes I feel a bit offbeat.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I don't like to attach myself to material things.
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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
