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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Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).
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You are doing better than you think you are.
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Self-care is really about taking care of you and focusing on feeling good about yourself - mind and body.
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Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
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To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.
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What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.
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The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
