Thomas Bulfinch Quotes
The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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We've got to learn how to finish. It was obvious last week we didn't get it done. This week, it snuck up on us. It caught up with us.
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Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that we are there as partners for them if they are prepared to make the necessary changes. But we should be in no doubt as to why we are in Afghanistan. We ended up there because terrorism hatched there erupted thousands of miles away in New York on Sept. 11.
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The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
