Isaac Watts Quotes
It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof.
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I am definitely going to college!
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Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.
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It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
