Edward Noyes Westcott Quotes
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Fine art is really something I want to get into.
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I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
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There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
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It's five O'Clock in the morning and I want ya and ya want me, Don't ya?
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My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.
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If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
