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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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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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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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
