N. F. Simpson Quotes
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
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I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
