Joseph J. Ellis Quotes
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
Jackie Mason
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
Farnaz Fassihi
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Karl G. Maeser
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
Edmund Morgan
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
N. T. Wright
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I buy way too many books.
Orson Scott Card
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
Zadie Smith
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
Sam Harris
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
Edmund Phelps
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When I was a kid, we got up, we walked a number of paces to a television, turned it on, and changed channels.
Jeffrey Tambor
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I believe I am an honorable man.
Joseph J. Ellis
