William Cobbett Quotes
When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
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When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.
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What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
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What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.
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Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.
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When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.
