George Saville Quotes
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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
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I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
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The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.
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Until a person finds something to die for, he or she has nothing to live for.
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Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.
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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
