Virginia Woolf Quotes
It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
Quotes to Explore
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
