Isaac Watts Quotes
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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Such is the aspect of this shore;'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,We start, for soul is wanting there.
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
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I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
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A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
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I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'
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Americans are really lovely people - friendly, kind and willing to help you out.
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The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
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What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
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He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind.
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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
