Francis Scott Key Quotes
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials
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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
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Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.
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When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.
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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
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Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
