Daniel Defoe Quotes
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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5-hour Energy has always been about helping hard working people, and the Amazing People program takes this further by making a significant difference in the lives of those who are working through difficult circumstances.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.
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Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
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Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.
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I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
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My man Friday.
