John Henry Newman Quotes
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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Failure is a part of success.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
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I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
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I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.
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The President ordains the bee to be Immortal. The President ordains.
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There are two religions in earth, which have distinct enmity against all other religions. These two are Christianity and Islam. They are not just satisfied with observing their own religions, but are determined to destroy all other religions. That’s why the only way to make peace with them is to embrace their religions.'
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History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
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So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones where I've written a made-up story. All of them are about very real emotions, and I just find different ways to express them.
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I am very sorry that Andy Coulson has decided to resign as my Director of Communications, although I understand that the continuing pressures on him and his family mean that he feels compelled to do so. Andy has told me that the focus on him was impeding his ability to do his job and was starting to prove a distraction for the Government.
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Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!
