John Rawls Quotes
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
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I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
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I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
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Our psychology is … a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. It Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
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I grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs...
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
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To be perfectly frank, I really do not.
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I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.
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Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
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As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
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I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.
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Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.
