He was shooting anyone just sitting there. My emotions are so crazy right now I don't know what to say ... For something like this to happen is just crazy.
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You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
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It isn’t the people you fire who make your life miserable, it’s the people you don’t.
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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
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Called on one occasion to a homestead cabin whose occupant had been found frozen to death, Coroner Harvey opened the door, glanced in, and ins...
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There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.
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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
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A more problematic example is the parallel between the increasingly abstract and insubstantial picture of the physical universe which modern p...
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Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
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Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.
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Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding.
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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
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If it's not in the books, then they become something that's simply hard and harsh and violent and quite unrelenting. That's neither the kind of book that I would like to read, nor that I would like to write. It's people's feelings that interest me.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
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You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.
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Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.
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Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.
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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.
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The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.
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The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
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It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
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I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
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