Artemas Ward Quotes
We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Whitney won't ever even know what it's like to be 50. Whitney will never know what it's like to be 50. She died before she was 50. So there's nothing to be ashamed of. You should be proud of your age.
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I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
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It is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation
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We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.
