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- Nov 07, 2020
End Quotes
How things end - in war, in careers, in conscience.
This collection leans heavily historical, comparing a lost war to a chess endgame and recalling a family home destroyed during World War II. For quotes specifically about final outcomes and results, see End Result quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've really been enjoying The Bar Method because I'm not a sweaty mess when we get to my favorite part of class - the end.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just when your ovaries should be brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook mine, threatening to end my fertility and potentially my life.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how demanding show biz is. I fear that things would just end up bad if I'd date a colleague.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'Versace' and 'American Horror Story,' if that was the end of the line, then I can go happy.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, everybody has the right to choose their own path in their career.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different... the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.
- Exquisitely
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day that's why I play the game, to glorify Him in everything I do and to compete for Him.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020