Mabel Osgood Wright Quotes
what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.
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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
