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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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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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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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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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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It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
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In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.
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We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn't even walk around anymore... I was really socially anxious and strange.
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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.
