William Ellery Channing Quotes
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
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You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
