Henry Knox Quotes
The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
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Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.
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With humour, there is life.
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But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .
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The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.
