Arnold Jacobs Quotes
One in our hands and another in our ming, and the most importan is the one in our mind.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
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Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.
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It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.
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Teach him how to live,And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.
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If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything.
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Embrace the fear and go for it. That's what I do. I don't run from it - I embrace the fear.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.
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In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
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You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with.
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One in our hands and another in our ming, and the most importan is the one in our mind.
