Phillips Brooks Quotes
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
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I've actually never done standup before.
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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
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As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
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Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
