Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
Quotes to Explore
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.
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New York is dead. It's too expensive.
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The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
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Remember that our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, know you best and love you the most.
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The police pull up in back of my car and run my plates - they don't see you as you are; they see you through a racialized negative gaze. I think the best thing is not to internalize it too much, or it'll make you crazy because you know it's going to happen again.
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Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
