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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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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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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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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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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I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
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It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.
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Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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Every organ in your body is connected to the one under your hat.
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How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
