William Cullen Bryant Quotes
The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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Raymond Passworthy: But... we're such little creatures. Poor humanity's so fragile, so weak. Little... little animals.
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Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.
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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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I just need to go to like an island or something.
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The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.
