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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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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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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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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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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I'm not afraid of death myself, because I'm not gonna know I'm dead. I'm awed a bit by the idea, but I'm perfectly reconciled to it. Certainly I am, as everyone is, reconciled to everyone else's death but their own. They think an exception can be made in their own case.
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I'm a regular guy, and I don't want anyone to look at me as being superior or having a God complex or anything like that, you know? I don't want to walk around like I know everything, because I have so much more room to improve.
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
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Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.
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When did one man ever civilize a people?
