Josiah Royce Quotes
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
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I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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The greatness of human actions is measured by the inspiration that it brings. Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal of beauty and obeys it: an ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of country, ideal virtues of the Gospel! These are the wellsprings of great thoughts and great actions. All reflections illuminate infinity.
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Instinct is the direct connection with truth.
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Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.
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A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.
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There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.
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I don't usually try to rely on songs to woo a girl, but I think Coldplay can get a girl in the mood... or make her cry, one or the other. I used to play in cover bands; we sure did our fair share of Coldplay. I like 'Viva La Vida.'
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Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.
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Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
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If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.
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It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.
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Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.
