Leslie Poles Hartley Quotes
Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'
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To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it.
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In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.
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Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.
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I don't write autobiographically.
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Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
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It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
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I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.
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Adam's workouts and routines are kind of legendary. This is probably one of the best trained athletes on the league. He's extremely serious about football. We never talked any business until he felt comfortable about seeing how he would fit in with us.
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If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the public or talking to a group of people, that scientist is liable to get more attention - in fact, I'm told that they do get more attention - than the one who's a little more stiff about it. Well, that's not good for science.
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Mars and Venus and Jupiter, all of the handiwork of God was now placed in the authority of the God of the earth. And here's what He told him. He said I want you to guard it and keep out all intruders. Now that gives us a little insight on why When God made Adam all he did was made an exact imprint of himself. He duplicated himself, he was the image and from his image came himself.
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Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing.
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By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.
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I have never been unfaithful to a partner and would find it immoral to be involved with a married man.
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Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.
