C.P. Snow Quotes
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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My first movie was totally improvised.
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Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
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I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
