William Ellery Channing Quotes
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
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Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane
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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
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This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.
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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
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Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
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The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
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Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!
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"Remember this when you are queen," she breathed. "I told you my secrets."
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If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want. Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
