James F. Byrnes Quotes
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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Nature hates calculators.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
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My door is open.
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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
