Harold Acton Quotes
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
Harold Acton
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
Adam McKay
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
F. Gary Gray
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
Naomi Scott
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
Pamela Meyer
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
Sam Kean
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
T. J. Miller
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My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
Zach LaVine
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I'm an artist at heart.
Lance Reddick
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
Victor Francis Hess
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.
Clint Smith
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There are few signs in a soul's state more alarming than that of religious indifference, that is, the spirit of thinking all religions equally true- the real meaning of which is, that all religions are equally false.
Frederick William Robertson
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All the issues that have come up under the Obama administration would be continued under Hillary Clinton.
Bill Flores
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For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.
Darryl Pinckney
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What is clear is that a French aspiration for equality and a German expectation of hegemony are not consistent.
Martin Feldstein
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
Harold Acton
