Cordell Hull Quotes
Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say - it leaves me something to do.
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I did some modeling here and there but nothing really big. There was a time when I simply bummed around, waiting for offers.
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I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.
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Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.
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Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.
