William Osler Quotes
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
William Osler
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Kate Christensen
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
Ted Sarandos
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
Washed Out
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
Carine Roitfeld
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I don't want to hear about my death.
Oriana Fallaci
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
Tariq Ali
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Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I know the Academy Awards are all about the art, and love, of movie making. But I have to say, my favorite part is the dresses!
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
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I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm good; this is it.'
Edward Enninful
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Claudius Claudianus
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Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
William Osler
