Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'
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People always assume if you're vegetarian you can just live on cheese and meanwhile cheese is awful for your body even if tastes so good. I'm a massive animal lover too. Being vegan has been so good for me. I've never felt better.
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Our kids are super outgoing and energetic, and they definitely don't stay in the house at all.
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I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.
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I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
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Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.
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In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
