Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life. Because if you were entitled to life, then the life would have to be quantified. How many years? Seventy? Sixty? Shakespeare was dead at fifty-two. Keats was dead at twenty-six. Thomas Chatterton at seventeen.
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I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.
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Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.
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But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.
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There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
