George Soros Quotes
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I like to improvise.
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I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
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I love playing the game. I always have. Of course, winning matches makes it much sweeter. The wins and the losses always lead to these big moments, unless you're Serena Williams.
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Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
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The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
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I'm not always going to like the paparazzi photos, but I'm still going to go to lunch with my boyfriend.
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I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain!
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Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.
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People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
