Herbert Spencer Quotes
Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
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Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.
