Chauncey Wright Quotes
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
