Joseph Glanvill Quotes
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
Quotes to Explore
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.
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I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.
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Restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind, ... the seer dwells in his own nature. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.
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When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.
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I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
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I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.
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Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to reshape the world to fit our dreams, we are better off using our strength to comfort one another in a world that is almost certain to mock our dreams and break our hearts.
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Dressing up and doing photo shoots was a side of the industry I really didn't think I would like. But now I've got a glam squad; I love trying on new outfits and experimenting with different looks.
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We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
