Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Quotes
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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My father was a lawyer.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.
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I was always inspired by restaurants like La Tulipe in Manhattan. You'd walk right by and say, 'Oh what a lovely house.' You didn't realize there was a restaurant behind the door.
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Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.
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I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.
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Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
