William Morris Quotes
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
Quotes to Explore
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I think I can change the game.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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Even in Kitty Kelley's book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly around to take photo ops with kids.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.
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Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
