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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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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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.
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The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.
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Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.
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Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.
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In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
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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.
