Maxwell Anderson Quotes
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
Quotes to Explore
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
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I love the free spirit in London.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
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Minimizing the role of sexual attraction in rape denies our responsibility for reinforcing men's addiction to female sexual beauty and then depriving men of what we've helped addict them to.
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Goya in gratitude to his friend Arrieta for the skill and great care with which he saved his Goya's life in his acute and dangerous illness, suffered at the end of 1819, at the age of seventy-tree years. He painted this in 1820.
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As I tell young people in workshops, 'It's your country. If you came here on the bottom of a slave ship, if your people came here seeking political freedom – however your folks got here – it belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anyone, so claim it. It's your birthright. America belongs to every person who is here.'
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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
