Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
