William Ellery Channing Quotes
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.
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You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
