Zhuge Liang Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
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I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
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I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.
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The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
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What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?
