Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
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Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.
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I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
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When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.
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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
