Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.
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Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
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When he's healthy, Zach Randolph for the Memphis Grizzlies has always been somebody that has always been very tough to play against.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
