Joseph Lewis Quotes
Praying as a public function, particularly when led by a clergyman, is a vulgar display of an exclusively personal matter.
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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Make A Difference Day is a great way to introduce kids to the rewards of volunteering. It's fun, it's focused and it's empowering to know that millions are motivated to do the same.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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My death scene in 'The Salton Sea' is really weird. I mean, I get shot in the head. What experience can you possibly draw from? There's nothing you can compare it to, really.
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Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.
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Praying as a public function, particularly when led by a clergyman, is a vulgar display of an exclusively personal matter.
