Edward Gibbon Quotes
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.
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I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.
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If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.
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Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.
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I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.
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In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
