John Lothrop Motley Quotes
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
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In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save literature, educators must take command of the pre-rational world of images. The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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'Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.'
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It is the fate of 'little faiths' of truth that they, true followers of Peter, whether they be Roman or the Protestant observance, cry out and sink in the sea of ideas, where the followers of Paul, believing in the Spirit, walk secure and undismayed.
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I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.'
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Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
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Every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
