James Heywood Quotes
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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It's basically the same, just darker.
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It means I don't have much depth of vision.
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Patients have the right to help themselves.
