William Howard Taft Quotes
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.
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Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
