Edmund Spenser Quotes
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.
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I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
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No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
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I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.
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Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.
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The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.
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National liberation is necessarily an act of culture.
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I think it's important to have goals and to have dreams, but you also have to live in the moment of what the reality is.
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A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
