Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.
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David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
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Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
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Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
