Philip Massinger Quotes
What a bridgeOf glass I walk upon, over a riverOf certain ruin! Mine own weighty fearsCracking what should support me:-And those helps,Which confidence yields to others, are from meRavish'd by doubts, and wilful jealousy.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.
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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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Under the Affordable Care Act everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access.
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There's nothing better than seeing people you know being able to work and support their families. Knowing you have a little hand in it? Now, that really makes you feel good.
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I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.
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One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.
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What a bridgeOf glass I walk upon, over a riverOf certain ruin! Mine own weighty fearsCracking what should support me:-And those helps,Which confidence yields to others, are from meRavish'd by doubts, and wilful jealousy.
