Raymond Williams Quotes
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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What fascinates me about Duchamp is the idea of tearing down the wall between the art object and reality.
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You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
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It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
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If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.
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It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.
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Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
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It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.
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No one can be certain what the future will bring. No one can say whether the time has come for an easing of the struggle. But history and our own conscience will judge us harsher if we do not now make every effort to test our hopes by action. And this is the place to begin.
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
