William Shenstone Quotes
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.
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In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.
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The number of people who believe in stopping violence in the world is wildly greater than those that want to perpetrate it. When everybody has a smartphone, the ability for people to actually do something about violence goes up significantly.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
