Angel Kyodo Williams Quotes
Do we police because we fear we can be savages? Do our barricades from each other belie the blinds that keep us strangers to ourselves?
Quotes to Explore
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
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Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly.
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Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
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Do we police because we fear we can be savages? Do our barricades from each other belie the blinds that keep us strangers to ourselves?
