Daniel Defoe Quotes
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.
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Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask.
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In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the Justice Department prosecuted more people for having unauthorized discussions with reporters than all prior administrations combined.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
