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 very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
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I hadn't realized until this week that in Moses' youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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When did one man ever civilize a people?
