Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
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Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there.
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I find that I'm fighting to keep my energy and my passion centered on the work and not on "Will this get me an Oscar?" - which is the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in looking at a role that way. That's not what I ever did, and it's not how I can continue to do my work.
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We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.
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I have no problem with being underdressed.
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
