William Penn Quotes
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I am meeting Diaspora Jews all the time, and we are developing programmes to prevent distancing. We have a joint history, but we cannot take matters for granted. Israel is home for all of us, and part of the beauty of the country is its social diversity.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
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I've been to a lot of places while touring, but I'd have to say Switzerland was my favorite.
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I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.
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It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
