Francis Quarles Quotes
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong.
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When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
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As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.
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No one's trying to get with jugglers.
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According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
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As a director, I only know how to do it one way, is to pour my heart and soul into everything.
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If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
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I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.
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Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
