Isaac Mayer Wise Quotes
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.
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So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
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So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
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Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
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Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.
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I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.
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Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.
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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
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Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
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Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.
