Northrop Frye Quotes
The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.
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Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
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The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
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I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.
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Art does, to some extent, follow economics.
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Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.
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The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
