Washington Allston Quotes
All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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I believe in the jury system.
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I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
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What ardently we wish we soon believe.
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Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.
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I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.
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The thing I'm most proud of is that I've raised a lot of money for certain charities - breast cancer and the Caldecott Foundation and the NSPCC. But as far as my self-esteem is concerned, doing 'The Graduate' for 11 months was fantastic.
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I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.
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All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.
