William Gilmore Simms Quotes
Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
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Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
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On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
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Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
