Tony Snow Quotes
We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.
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Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.
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We want to avoid creating this sort of inevitability that it's an all-or-nothing proposition that leads us down the path of a dead-end street. This package really does reflect, I believe, the more cautionary approach.
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Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine. The lord God almighty has done me proud with my features which I'm proud of and have no desire to alter them. I say ' let nature take its course '.
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We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
