Benjamin Barber Quotes
Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.Benjamin Barber
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland -
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
Pat Nixon -
I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
Ian Watson -
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht -
We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
Oliver North -
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
Mahesh Babu
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I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel -
There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
Nate Powell -
Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
Ian McShane -
The way I look at it you can always get better.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith -
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
A. Whitney Brown
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
Cameron Crowe -
I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
Kate Brown -
I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
Sally Schneider -
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
W. C. Fields -
How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
Adam Driver
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Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!
Randy Pausch -
Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.
Eric Metaxas -
But I went to 10 different schools, so I didn’t make many friends. I’ve always been a bit of a loner. My anger has always been in me, mainly being bitter that I didn’t get a better education.
Mark Shaw -
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
Bob Kane -
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
William Hazlitt -
Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.
Benjamin Barber