Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.
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It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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The camera can photograph thought.
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Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.
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My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
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My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.
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Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.
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On the 1983 general election (The News of the World, 19 June 1983).
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My job is to entertain people and make them happy. I'm blessed to be able to do that.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
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How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
