David Josiah Brewer Quotes
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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'Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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I hate art auctions.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
