Lawrence Pearsall Jacks Quotes
I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
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I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.
