Walter Scott Quotes

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.
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So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.