Finley Peter Dunne Quotes

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

Finley Peter Dunne

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• I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Night

• Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Writing
  • Last
  • Sixteen

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Great
  • History
  • Moral

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Career
  • Me
  • Always

• I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Person

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Movie

• You dont have to let your life be destroyed by diabetes. You can reclaim your life.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Destroyed

• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

  

  Socrates
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Exists

• My love, Alcibiades, which I hardly like to confess, would long ago have passed away, as I flatter myself, if I saw you loving your good things, or thinking that you ought to pass life in the enjoyment of them.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Need

• The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Pains
  • Eclipse
  • Laborious

• Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Life
  • Men
  • Best