Richard Whately Quotes
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.
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Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.
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An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism.
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Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.
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Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.
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I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.
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It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
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What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
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There's nothing like playing at home.
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I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.
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I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.
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Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.
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To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.
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In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.
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When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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I have learned that I am enough... I have learned that no one else can LOVE ME - FOR ME.
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True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
