James A. Garfield Quotes
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
James A. Garfield
Quotes to Explore
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
Walter Jon Williams
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
Larry Hagman
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
Calvin Johnson
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I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
Bryce Dallas Howard
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When I work with a character like Valjean on stage, I get totally absorbed in that man. I become that man. But there's always, outside of that, the third eye, which watches what you're doing. And you can say to yourself, 'I'm crying well' or 'I'm being angry well.' But there's always that element there, and it never stops.
Colm Wilkinson
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
A. S. Byatt
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
Oswald Chambers
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If quantum theory is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
Albert Einstein
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The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
James A. Garfield