William Booth Quotes
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
Quotes to Explore
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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For me, fashion is something that makes you feel alive, that expresses something of you: if you are sad, if you are happy.
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There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
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However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.
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Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.
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Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
