Evelyn Underhill Quotes
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
Jackie Evancho
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
Rakul Preet Singh
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
A. R. Rahman
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
Dan Hicks
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
Rachel True
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
Ian Goldin
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
Jack Kevorkian
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
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Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
Edith Head
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
Venus Williams
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Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.
Irvin Kershner
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The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
Tariq Ali
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I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
Oscar Hijuelos
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
R. L. Stine
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We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.
Aaron Peirsol
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Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.
Vanna Bonta
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The third day, I knew it was over. But I tried to make it last for three months.
Lana Turner
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
Ziggy Marley
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I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.
Brooke Shields
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Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.
Daniel Gordis
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God found me when I was at my lowest point. That was the first time in my life when I really felt like I understood who Jesus was - it was more than just knowing about Him: I felt like He met me in that time and place.
Mat Kearney
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The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.
Evelyn Underhill