"There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents."

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Sherwin B. Nuland

#Differences Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Danger Quotes

“I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.”
“It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth”
“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
“I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.”
“What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.”
“I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.”
“There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.”
“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.”

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