Darrell Royal Quotes
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
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Everything has a place and time.
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I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I was afraid of having to start all over again, which happened. But we got lucky.
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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
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Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?
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It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the 'dark horse' in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
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I love storytelling.
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Plumbing is usually boring.
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We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.
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Sure, Tod's makes shoes and bags. But we make them using leather, which is a living substance to me. And behind each shoe and bag, which in itself may be attractive and useful and comfortable to carry and wear, there is this Italian spirit, this Italian dream.
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Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven The artist has the power to capture that. To express what he thinks about the subject. I thought that was much more romantic then seeing myself in a cold, stark glass reflection.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don't think so!
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There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.
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I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
