Vernon Howard Quotes
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I think I need security.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road.
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I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
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The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.
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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.
