Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes
There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
Walt Mossberg
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
Orlando Bloom
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
Rafael Nadal
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
La India
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
Sam Graves
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
Vince Cable
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
Sam Walton
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Harry Browne
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I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.
Felicity Jones
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
Karen DeCrow
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It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.
Malala Yousafzai
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
Maggie Gallagher
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It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there's more to life.
Nate Diaz
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In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
Mahershala Ali
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My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
Gail Carson Levine
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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.
Sam Altman
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When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
Emmylou Harris
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Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
Bruno Dumont
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I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's kind of the way my career has gone; everyone is a little confused about it all the time.
Mac DeMarco
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They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.
Eddie Campbell
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I thought 'The Humans' was a beautiful play.
Joel Grey
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There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.
Alfred Whitney Griswold