Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
Najib Razak
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
Barry McGee
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
D. B. Sweeney
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It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
Macaulay Culkin
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
Edie Falco
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
Hari Kondabolu
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
Adam Osborne
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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
Zoe Saldana
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Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.
Zoe Foster Blake
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.
Vaclav Havel
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The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
Viktor Yushchenko
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Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett
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You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.
Brad Stine
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
