W. C. Fields Quotes
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'
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As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.
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In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
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The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.
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A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the ‘religion’ of our time.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
