Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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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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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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I have a dark sense of humor.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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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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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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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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When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
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I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
