Isaac Watts Quotes
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.
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You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.
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The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.
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I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.
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The business itself is extraordinary levels of complication, one that is affected by virtually everything going on in the world, “multi-dimensional chess”.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
