William Morris Hunt Quotes
Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.
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I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman. Those are obviously the key big ones, but there's always something kind of cool about Aquaman still, the idea of creating a huge world that is on our planet.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'
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Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.
