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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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 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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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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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
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Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
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I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.
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When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
