"Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising."
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"What one does easily, one does well."
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"He's liked, but he's not well liked."
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"Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers."
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"Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance."
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"I know perfectly well my own egotism."
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"For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself."
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"I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it."
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"I've been fortunate enough to do pretty well in playoffs. I feel pretty comfortable in them."
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"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another."
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"My problem is I don't see and hear that well, so when I go to the movies, I can make out what's going on, but I can't hear what they're saying. And after the movie, I have to ask whoever I'm with "now, what was that all about?""
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"The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well."
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"You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well."
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"Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm."
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"We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants."
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"Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well."
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"I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist."
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"Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray."
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