William Shenstone Quotes
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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We’re all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
