Joseph J. Ellis Quotes
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I crave attention and adventure.
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
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The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.
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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
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Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.
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On one level, I realize the basic appeal of my character is her body. But the totality of the Conan film is really much more than that. When I read the script, I thought it was just a matter of sword fighting. But when I read the books, I found they were filled with sorcery, and I liked that very much. I've always loved fairy tales, and I've always believed that just around the corner, magic truly does exist, human magic.
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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
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We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
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I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
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It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.
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They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling “prejudice.” What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism!
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.
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Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
