Jack London Quotes
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Quotes to Explore
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows.
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I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
