Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

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• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

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• A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

  

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• There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

  

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• I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.

  

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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.

  

  Salman Khan
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• In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

  

  Zach Braff
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• Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Heart
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• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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• What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
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• Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.

  

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• I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

  

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• The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."

  

  African Spir
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• What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

  

  Samuel Lover
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• I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.

  

  Steve Earle
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• The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
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  • Destroying

• Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

  

  Richard Le Gallienne
  • Religion
  • Organized