Alex Johnston Quotes
The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests – sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It’s not a position I feel comfortable with.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
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All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade-wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.
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We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets
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We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
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Don't gain the world and lose your soul Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
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I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
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For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.
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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
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One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.
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Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
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I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.
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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
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The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests – sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It’s not a position I feel comfortable with.
