R. A. Torrey Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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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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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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I'm a very jaded and cynical person.
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The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
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There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.
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The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.
