C. V. Wedgwood Quotes
The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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Once the U.S. and NATO walked away from Libya, a chaotic, lawless state in the soft underbelly of Europe arose.
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I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.
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It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even 'realities'; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a 'solitary elephant.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
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The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.
