Os Guinness Quotes
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
