"If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately."
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"I think that Vladimir Putin has decided, in a very strategic way, to turn the tables and do everything in his power to, as we've described Russian elections as illegitimate, to try and communicate to the rest of the world that Western elections are illegitimate. And it's not just us, we know that now. It's Germany, it's France, it's a number of other countries."
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"I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that."
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"If we start thinking simply nationally, and we start having policies that try and restrict the benefits only within our borders, and try and implement protectionist measures as a consequence, this will not have the effect we need to have on the global economy. And that's ultimately the global economy that's pulling most of us down, particularly countries like Canada, that aren't the source of these current economic troubles."
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"I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it."
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"If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them."
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"It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up."
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"We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting."
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"Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting."
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"Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working."
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"But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood."
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"Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!"
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"Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again."
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"What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign."
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"The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun."
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"Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing through life Mindless and careless Make sure you're where less Trouble is rife Woes are fleeting Blows are glancing When you're dancing Through life."
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"The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone."
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"Try and get out into nature for even 30 min. each day to clear your head + think + walk + breathe. Great daily practice."
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"You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else."
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"It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way."
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