Richard Whately Quotes
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Funny is an attitude.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
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Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
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I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.
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Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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The problem with industrial food is zero transparency. The system thrives on the fact that there is no transparency.
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I make Eric pick up from this little local place in Nashville that has really good honey whole wheat bread. It's near where he works out in the morning, so I make him pick up a loaf, and the kids eat it, too. I'll just keep passing out toast all morning. The kids just walk around with crumbs everywhere; we don't care.
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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
