George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes
A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
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When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
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I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
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I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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Comedians' first ten minutes usually stay with them the first several years of their career. It's their mission statement. Their disclaimer that lets people know who they are. Or were. It's also a good time to make fun of your name if you have a funny or strange one.
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In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.
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I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.
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If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.
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All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!
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A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.
