Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes
Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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I don't just write a script, and then someone takes it away and builds a game. I am continually getting input in order to create a big suspension field to hold the gameplay together so that the gamers aren't doing arbitrary tasks, so that they are doing things that seem meaningful.
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I realised after doing 'Tanu Weds Manu' that I had become fat and was not performing to the mark. I realised that I had become a terrible actor. I did 'Jodi Breakers,' which did not do well. So, I moved away from the film industry and lived with the common man to know where I was lacking and what do they want from an actor.
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Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.
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We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. If war comes it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.
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Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.
