Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes
The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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I'm not a negative person.
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
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Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
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The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
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There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.
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People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
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The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.
