"I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life."
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"I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure."
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"Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance."
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"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends."
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"I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian."
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"Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased."
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"It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence."
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"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
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"He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great."
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"How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!"
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"No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained."
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"If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still"
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"His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises."
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"To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar"
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"If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons."
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"Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds."
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"There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible."
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"The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness."
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"I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone."
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"Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me."
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