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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Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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If you want to be effective in this town, you need to get over it to get things done.
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When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
