Isaac Rosenberg Quotes
You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
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I would love to study cultures and people.
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What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
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Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
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When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
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Ah, well, if they wanted their adultery, what did it matter to me? I hadn’t much room to talk, anyway, with my five-pound prostitutes who did a bunk and the Japanese girls who cost far less and didn’t do a bunk and whatever I was likely to pick up in Colombo.
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I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
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Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
