P. T. Barnum Quotes
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
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I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
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Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
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I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.
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Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.
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If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
