Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.
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We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
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I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.
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I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
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It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn't say or act in ways I normally wouldn't act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.
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I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.
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I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.
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My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
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Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.
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I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
