Joseph Banks Quotes
O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.
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I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
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I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.
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I'm a fan of action movies.
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My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel.
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Nam multa praeter spem, scio, multis bona evenisse. At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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You're afraid, like I make my deals with the devil.
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I think at this point in time that the inverted yield curve is not signaling a slowdown.
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O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!
