James Martineau Quotes
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I can't take anything seriously.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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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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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.
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If we obstinately refuse to reform what we have implicitly declared to be wrong, and engaged to put away the holding of the Africans in slavery... have we not the great reason to fear, yea, may we not with great certainty conclude, God will withdraw his kind protection from us, and punish us yet seven times more?
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I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.
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The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
