Sylvia Sidney Quotes
Loneliness is a person’s own fault. If you’re lonely it means you have no resources within yourself.
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I'm very happy being attorney general.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
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I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.
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This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
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If an instrument similar to a geiger-counter could be invented that counted moral judgements instead, we would learn to duck as people became increasingly 'moral', since lethal force is usually imminent. So far from moral fervour being an alternative to force, it is frequently the overture, the accompaniment and the memorial to it.
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We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.
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Loneliness is a person’s own fault. If you’re lonely it means you have no resources within yourself.
