John Lothrop Motley Quotes
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.
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In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.
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When did one man ever civilize a people?
