James Anthony Froude Quotes
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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Boyapati is one of the few directors who can pull off a masala film like 'Sarrainodu'.
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When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.
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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
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We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
