Samuel Hopkins Quotes
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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I try to do my best.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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I don't think about the media.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
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What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.
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If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
