Oliver Cromwell Quotes
God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.
Quotes to Explore
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch.
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Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped hands. They accepted one another's sacrifice. Hers, mayhap, was the more complete of the two, because for her his absence would mean weary waiting, the dull heartache so terrible to bear.
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Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God.
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If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
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God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.
