Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.
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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
