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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It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.
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He needs to give us first of all the estimate of what that cost is going to be, why we are there, when we are going to get out and what are the situations or objectives that allow to get out of there.
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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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I'm not going to say how, specifically, but I will continue to speak out about human rights and freedoms. Absolutely. We can speak out about what we are angry about, but the most important thing is to try and help people understand the reality and not be blinded by something that is not the truth.
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The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.
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You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.
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We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
