Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person.
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Today we need a concerted international effort that would result in freezing the assets of the ruling family, which are estimated at $10bn.
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I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
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America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
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One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
