Mary Astell Quotes
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
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I've directed independent film.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I'm a huge fan of 'Scandal,' I still love 'Grey's Anatomy,' and 'Resurrection' looks amazing.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.
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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
