William Howard Taft Quotes
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.
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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
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When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.
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The Virgin Mary is both a major medieval legacy and a complicated, messy mixed bag.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
