William Ellery Channing Quotes
The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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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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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
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Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.
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The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.
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The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality. Whatever that means.
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I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
