Samuel McChord Crothers Quotes
We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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At DC Comics, it has been a top priority that DC forges a meaningful, forward-looking digital strategy.
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On handling stress When you start projecting on the future-'Oh my God, I gotta do this and I’m not there yet'-well, of course you’re not there yet because you’re here now. That time will come…I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn’t feel as stressful.
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Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?
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We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.
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The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.
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We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.
