Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.
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I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.
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As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
