James Bryant Conant Quotes
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.
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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
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You have to know why you get up every morning.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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CLUB - An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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Something traumatic happened to me when I was younger. I was with this old black woman, and she was very wise, very Alice Walker, The Color Purple...she looked at me and she says, 'Baby...you know I used to be able to fly but I can't fly no more, baby. But baby, you...? You too fat to fly.'
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You’re in total isolation. And you don’t know how long you’re going to be there, but you truly believe they can do anything to you. There’s no way to even question it. You’re not protected by anything. Why am I here? Your mind is very uncertain of time. You become like mad. It’s very hard for anyone. Even for people who have strong beliefs.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chelsea Handler, Tilda Swinton, and Sofia Coppola are other clients. They're all risk takers but never look like they're in costume.
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Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
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Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.
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Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.
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Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
