Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Quotes to Explore
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
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Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
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A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
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If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
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Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.
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Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.
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My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
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I couldn't imagine a home without animals.
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If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
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Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
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There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.
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When was the last time you saw a straight black love story without any guns?
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I was on holiday in Ibiza, having a lovely time, writing a book and looking at the stars every night and generally not having a care in the world. Then I got sent the script for 'Death in Paradise.' I couldn't get back to England in time for the auditions, so my girlfriend filmed me on her camera, and I sent it off via email.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
