Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
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I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.
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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
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To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided and facilitated by presidents and their administrations.
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I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.
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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
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I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.
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People aren't suckers. Some are, perhaps. But most people inside know when we're being lied to.
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Honor the old art form; Take pictures that are going to last forever. I want to do the definitive picture of the person in the moment, I say it all the time and it’s the clearest way that I can describe what I do.
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There's so much black content on multiple platforms, and it's all getting great ratings. If you think about the Oscars snubbing 'Straight Outta Compton,' in a way, that kicked all of this off.
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Unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitutes a total and near-instanteous transformation of culture, values and attitudes.
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My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
