Arthur Ransome Quotes
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I am a journalist.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge in it; you'd read it over and over again.
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I'm not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.
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Ἀλλ' ἐκδιδάσκει πάνθ' ὁ γηράσκων χρόνος.
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But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.
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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
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When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
