John Chrysostom Quotes
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Quotes to Explore
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
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I love New York.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
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The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
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Gsell: What astonishes me, is that your way is so different from that of other sculptors. They prose the model. Instead of that, you wait till a model has instinctively or accidentally taken an Interesting pose, and thon you reproduce It. Instead of your giving orders to the model, the model gives orders to you.
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It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.
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I was spoiled growing up in the 1970s because magazines were publishing the photographs of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin without compromise. You really felt that sense of freedom through their images.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
