William Ernest Hocking Quotes
Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory
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That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
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Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
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And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.
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Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.
