William Hurrell Mallock Quotes
If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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And I think that that’s one of the best things you can give somebody – the chance to show them what it feels like to make other people get excited and happy.
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Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
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A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.
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An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.
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We're starting to form together. But at the same time, we looked kind of rusty, plus it's kind of hard to tell without pads on, to be honest.
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If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
