Phillips Brooks Quotes
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.
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Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.
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Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
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Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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There are so many things to be lucky for. Lucky to be healthy, lucky to be, like, beautiful. Lucky to be living in America.
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
