William Penn Quotes
Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
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All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.
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Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
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Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
