William Penn Quotes
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
William Penn
Quotes to Explore
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
Haley Joel Osment
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
Nat Wolff
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
Gail Collins
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
J. K. Simmons
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
Walter Payton
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
Nadine Gordimer
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You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.
Nelson Mandela
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The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the 'Doctor'- when you're there, you're in it a lot. You're speaking a lot.
David Tennant
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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
William Penn
