Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes
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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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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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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 always loved television. I always loved movies.
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Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.
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Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.
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I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.
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My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.
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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
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The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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We can't tell whether the abrasion was caused by a brickbat, a gun, a knife or what.
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My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
