Isaac Watts Quotes
When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
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Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?
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It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
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There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce c. 1880, when Munch started to paint series of landscapes in fresh colors
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Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.
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It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.
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Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.
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The dominating thoughts of my mind... will transform themselves into physical reality.
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A bodhisattva is someone who has taken on the sole task of meeting the needs of others, no matter how difficult that might be. His or her self-centeredness has been reduced to the point where wisdom, love, and compassion arise naturally, benefiting any situation. So the mind of a bodhisattva is heroic, vast, and of limitless benefit.
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When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.
