Mark Hopkins Quotes
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.
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I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don't have a good breakfast, then what are you going to do with the rest of your day. I get scared when I don't have a good breakfast!
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You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
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I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
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Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
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I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
