Josiah Royce Quotes
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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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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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
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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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The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.
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It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
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I want to have an empire. I like being in front of the camera, performing - but I would like to get to a place where I'm also executive producing and bringing other people along. People of all different walks of life, highlighting their voices.
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Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.