Andrew Potter Quotes
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
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The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
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...Вы сильны лишь постольку, поскольку отбираете у людей не всё. Но человек, у которого вы отобрали всё, - уже неподвластен вам, он снова свободен.
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I don't love the off-court stuff. But I know it's necessary.
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God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
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In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.
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The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!
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The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.
