Arturo Graf Quotes
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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I love twins stories.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
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I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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When we set aside the burden of judgment, then our hands and hearts are free to serve others with joy. Such service is truly the way of the Christian.
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Old age begins at the moment when a person has lost his ability to learn.
