Isaac Watts Quotes
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
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My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
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From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is
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Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.
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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
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I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'
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Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.
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Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
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Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.
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I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.
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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
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Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart.
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
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Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.
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You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.
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Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
