James Nasmyth Quotes
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'
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Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
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The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
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Bid us sigh on from day to day,And wish and wish the soul away,Till youth and genial years are flown,And all the life of life is gone.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie.It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.Now I don't know what to be without you around.
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I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
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That's my house and that's my car. That's my dog in my backyard. There's the window to the room. Where she lays her pretty headI planted that tree out by the fence. Not long after we moved in. That's my kids and that's my wife. Who's that man, runnin' my life?
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The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.
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Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.
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I could have made $2bn or $3bn - and ended up with some very cruel addiction - but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead.
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You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
