James Harrington Quotes
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.
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I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.
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Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.
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I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.
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Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
