William Ellery Channing Quotes
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
Quotes to Explore
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I am burying her every day. She was my baby and I loved my baby. She was an angel to everybody. There was nothing she wouldn't do for anybody.
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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
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With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.
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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
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The only thing I ever really care about is animals - animal causes. I don't really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
