Christopher Wren Quotes
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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Social media teams can and do launch clever campaigns, but game-changing Social Business initiatives are typically driven by management teams.
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I was raised a proper Southern boy.
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I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.
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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
