Nicholas Roerich Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Artists need to express.
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I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.
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He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.
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I don't sing them because I couldn't sing them as well as she did. I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.
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Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you're ever likely to see, is its own reward.
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I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.
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I did flirt with the idea of going to law school, but not for long. Maybe I'll play a lawyer one day - the beauty of acting is that you can try on so many different roles without having to commit to them in real life.
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People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.
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I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.
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Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
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The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
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Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
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I'm like really bad at like remembering all these things, but basically we finished...we wrapped in August and we locked in February. It was like we did our first friends and family screening I would say 8-weeks after we locked...after we wrapped or 8-weeks after we wrapped.
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One must manifest discipline of spirit; without it one cannot become free.
