Abby Brammell Quotes
I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there's a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.
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Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
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I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there's a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.
