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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We have to get it done, that's no excuse.
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Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.
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I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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A lot of people don't love their bank.
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Loneliness is a person’s own fault. If you’re lonely it means you have no resources within yourself.
