Francis Beaumont Quotes
As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
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I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.
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'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.
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Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
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There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.
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My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.
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America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
