William Ernest Hocking Quotes
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.
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Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
