General quotes
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
I don't always eat soup for dinner, but it's surprisingly filling.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically — and destructively — demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.
He who keeps his cool best wins.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it'.
New roads; new ruts.
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Giving is the most self-satisfying thing you can ever do.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.