Nathan Bedford Forrest Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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Let us have peace.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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I learned that you don't take dishes from the table to the dishwasher; you have to rinse them first. I think that's stupid because I don't go out in the back yard and hose off before taking a shower.
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Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
