Joyce Grenfell Quotes
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
Joyce Grenfell
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
Vincent Canby
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
Barney Frank
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
Jim Capaldi
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
R. C. Sproul
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Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.
Konrad Zuse
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
Aristotle
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Of course, there are people who deny that such obvious differences are real – Marxists, anarchists, radical feminists, and other denizens of the intellectual slums, who mistake an inability to make the simplest conceptual distinctions for deep insight. To these, it seems, we can add the ranks of secularist “thinkers.” When “New Atheists” and their ilk assure us in all seriousness that believing in God is just like believing in the Easter bunny, or that teaching religion is tantamount to child abuse, they remind me of the freshman philosophy student who once proudly declared to me his “discovery” that taking a girl out on a date was really no different from hiring a call girl, since what it’s “all about” is giving something in exchange for sex. In both cases, the analysis put forward is evidence not of profound philosophical understanding, but merely of being a shallow and sophomoric jackass.
Edward Feser
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Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.
Sadie Calvano
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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
Joyce Grenfell
