Joseph Hall Quotes
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.
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Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
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Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.
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I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.
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Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it.
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Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.
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I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
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when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.
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It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.
