Daniel Defoe Quotes
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.
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Great striking partnerships come in pairs.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
