P. T. Barnum Quotes
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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You cannot do only one thing.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all the things a kid didn't need to see or hear on film sets. So, acting was just a fun, breezy, extracurricular activity for me.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.
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When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
