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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about pleasure, good, good luck

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I...

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

Quote by Colin Firth

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

Quote by Charles Babbage about education, science

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about country, use, destruction

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell...

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about dream

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, ...

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about existence

HBO pursued me for a very long time. I didn't know if I wanted to do it. I went to Gotti's lawyers and asked them to approach his family to find out if they are aware of this project.

Quote by Armand Assante about family, time

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was...

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

Quote by Armand Assante about film

If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about home

I started to pursue a career in baseball.

I started to pursue a career in baseball.

Quote by Jim Fowler about career

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed...

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, judges, people, public, rightness, good, good luck

When I was a young musician, the only option available to...

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Quote by Billy Joel about education, music

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Quote by Juvenal

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always...

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about happiness

The amount of members of the opposite sex you pursue is...

The amount of members of the opposite sex you pursue is inversely proportional to pretty much everything about you, such as intelligence.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, intelligence, sex

My work thus also had practical significance and helped to improve some industrial processes. In return I was treated well and given substantial freedom to pursue my own ideas, eventually I was promoted to company Scientist, the highest research...

Quote by George Andrew Olah about work, research, companies

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his...

Quote by Thomas Paine about love, conduct, smile, conscience, affair, heart, death, man

Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Quote by Thomas Paine about affair, conduct, conscience, heart, death

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

Quote by Brian De Palma about pleasure, dream, being, time

I was very interested in art and art history. I probably...

I was very interested in art and art history. I probably would have pursued that somehow working in a gallery or an auction house.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about history, art, magic, home, house

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