Don Marquis Quotes
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Quotes to Explore
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
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When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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I like game shows.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
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In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.
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I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
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I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
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We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.
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'But why do you want me? I mean, what am I? Ask yourself that.'
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Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well, that is, it would be useful, if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice.
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What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.
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With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
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I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.
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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
