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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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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We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin.
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Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.
