Agnes Meyer Driscoll Quotes
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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Selecting Budapest would not only be a new city and country for the Olympic Games, but put the region on the map. We want to organise the first Central Eastern Europe Olympics.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'
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'You need not fear where you are going when you know Jesus is going with you.'
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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All media of communications are cliches serving to enlarge man's scope of action, his patterns of associations and awareness. These media create environments that numb our powers of attention by sheer pervasiveness.
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How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.
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I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.
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We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
