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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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 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 still don't get golf.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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..but what a pity that I did not come here in Venice when I was younger and more adventurous.
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No.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
