A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
Quotes to Explore
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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.
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When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
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I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs on there.
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There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
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I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
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I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.
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I want to show audiences I can act.
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The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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To make the record, we now push a pencil or tap a typewriter. Then comes the process of digestion and correction, followed by an intricate process of typesetting, printing, and distribution. To consider the first stage of the procedure, will the author of the future cease writing by hand or typewriter and talk directly to the record?
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Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
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Those who hold the public trust must adhere to the highest ethical standards there are. The job requires it, and the public must demand it.
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I spend very little time just doing ''art as art.'
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It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since.
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They [my stories] evolve. If they're tightly constructed, it's because they're revised constantly as I move forward each day. That's where the structure inheres. It's all organic.
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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
