Arthur Waley Quotes
Since the classical language has an easy grammar and limited vocabulary, a few months should suffice for the mastering of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Since the classical language has an easy grammar and limited vocabulary, a few months should suffice for the mastering of it.
