Tertullian Quotes
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I don't think limits.
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When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'
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I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
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The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called 'targeted subsidies' cost about $270 billion. In other words, Congress could eliminate the subsidies and cut the corporate rate nearly in half without any significant loss in revenue.
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
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I'm a realist about how the networks work.
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Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
