Paul Johnson (Paul Bede Johnson) Quotes
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.
Paul Johnson
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
Gary Weiss
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca
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I don't question God.
Victoria Osteen
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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
Harley Viera-Newton
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Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.
Saint Ignatius
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
Sam Worthington
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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Seventies theory explosion i.e., Literary theory, deconstruction, etc. was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
Camille Paglia
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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
Irene Dunne
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Where, where was Roderick then!One blast upon his bugle-hornWere worth a thousand men.
Walter Scott
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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Love sets fire to your schedule,And then calls an end to time.
Ani DiFranco
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Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
Jimmy Durante
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Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
R. C. Sproul
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As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in.
Kenya Barris
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'Push It,' to me, was very pop. And back then, you were called 'sell-out' to be pop.
Pepa
DJ Spinderella
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For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it is the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness of deserting his post.
Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.
Paul Johnson
