Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Why does God endow us with compassion?
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What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
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When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
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Ironically, I think some of the inspiration around Stitch Fix is really what was great about stores in the heyday of stores.
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I don't see it as coincidence that the great acceleration of the Anthropocene influences on Earth came during the same decades as our first exploration of the other planets.
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Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
