Joseph Priestley Quotes
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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I'm a bed monster.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
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A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
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Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.
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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
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After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.
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Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.
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To seek advice is easy, easy-approach job. To find the truth by yourself, that is a little difficult, and you have to work hard continuously, and you will find it.
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I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
