Charles Henry Parkhurst Quotes

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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  • History
  • Progress

• The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Difference
  • Bread

• The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
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  • Thinking
  • Golf

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
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• Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

  

  Karrine Steffans
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• Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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  • Steal

• I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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  • Mom

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
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  • Job
  • Reading

• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
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  • Thinking
  • Mind

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Mom
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• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Work
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• What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.

  

  Gary Numan
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• I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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  • Love

• My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

  

  Laura Linney
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  • Great
  • Family

• With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
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  • Fear
  • Small

• I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • People
  • World
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• Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Truth
  • History
  • Hand

• I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • Experience

• A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
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  • Book
  • Helping

• All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

  

  Charles Henry Parkhurst
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