Susanna Moodie Quotes
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen - he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
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The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.
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Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.
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I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.
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As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.
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Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.
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The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
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I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.
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ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
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Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.
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I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.
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I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
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The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen - he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.
