Abraham J. Williams Quotes
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.Abraham J. Williams
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
M. C. Gainey -
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel -
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks -
Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
Vernon Howard -
I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
Vera Farmiga -
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
H. P. Lovecraft
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
Taylor Wilson -
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
Yoko Ono -
To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
Zendaya -
My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
Harley Quinn Smith -
We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
Carey Mulligan
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I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.
Taylor Kitsch -
If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.
Barack Obama -
Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
Karl Marx -
I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.
Laura Bush -
The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.
Leonard Mlodinow -
Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά,πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν.
Aeschylus
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I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
Enrique Pena Nieto -
Though films have established me as an actor, dance has given me an identity and a boost to my career, and I am thankful to God for that.
Amruta Khanvilkar -
Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.
Yasunari Kawabata -
The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
Conrad Hilton -
Is there anything more important than a child?
Audrey Hepburn -
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.
Abraham J. Williams