Thomas Starr King Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
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As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.
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So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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The idea that spiritual growth begins with discomfort is a fact many church members and church leaders have been unwilling or unable to embrace.
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
