John Tillotson Quotes

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
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• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
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• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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• My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
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• When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

  

  Katarina Witt
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• If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

  

  Randall Kennedy
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  • Opportunity
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• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
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• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
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• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

  

  Ice T
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• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

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• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Bad
  • Think

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

  

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• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

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• In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

  

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• Love is a kind of warfare.

  

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• I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.

  

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• Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

  

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• I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

  

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• When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

  

  Plato
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  • Men
  • Live

• They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.

  

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• Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Greatness
  • Morality