Wilfred Grenfell Quotes
I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
Quotes to Explore
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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…the cold deflation of crapula…
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I think we have too much history. It’s not so important. I think people should have fun and enjoy their own time. I haven’t done much, so why should I waste people’s memory?'
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Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
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Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.
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I started in 1921 to write on the foundations of an approach to international trade theory that was to some extent new and for which I received the inspiration during a stroll on the popular promenade Unter den Linden in Berlin in 1920.
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The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?
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I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
