Alvah Bessie Quotes
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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I really believe in the power of music.
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
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There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.
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Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
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For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.
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It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
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Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.
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When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.
