Brooke Foss Westcott Quotes
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.
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Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
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Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
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The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.
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I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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I don't think I make decisions as an actor based on what I think the fans will or will not want at this point.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?
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What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
