Amelia Barr Quotes
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
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Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.
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When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'
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First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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I can't stress it enough that we genuinely love 'The Room.' Like I said, I've seen it more than any other movie that's ever been made, and it gets to a point where if a movie is that watchable, when can we just call it a good movie?
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It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance.
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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
