Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I enjoy my life.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.
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It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
