Charles Dickens Quotes
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
Quotes to Explore
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.
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If you was bleach and I was hair, I wouldn't die (dye) fo' ya'!
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Display companies, many of them that we've spoken to, are really excited about virtual reality because they're actually running out of innovation opportunities in other markets.
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So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
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When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
