James Anthony Froude Quotes
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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There are so many lessons in life that can be learned through golf. I am not afraid to say that I am still learning some of them and probably will continue for some time.
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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
