William Ellery Channing Quotes
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
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If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
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Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.
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One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
