Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
Quotes to Explore
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.
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I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don't do that as much.
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At least my mural of Leonardo da Vinci still exists on the wall of their offices, which were subsequently taken over by Expedia. They had the wall insured.
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I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.
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Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.
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Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
