Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative.
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
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There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I see other people's upbringings, I think, 'Hmm... mine was rather unconventional. Quite different!'
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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative.
