Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.
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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him.
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If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
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I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.
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The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
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We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
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Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
