John Selden Quotes
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
John Selden
Quotes to Explore
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
Adam Carolla
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
R. Kelly
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
Victor Hugo
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
Dan Brown
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
Adam Brody
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What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.
Tasha Smith
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Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.
Wayne Rooney
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Dead men tell no tales.
Haniel Long
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
Sam Brownback
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Dogen
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma
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America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
James Frey
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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
Aristotle
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Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
Jason Biggs
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
John Selden
