Cargill Gilston Knott Quotes
We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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'A Tale of Two Gardens'
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Most everybody's got seed to sowIt ain't always easy for a weed to grow, oh no.So he don't hoe the row for no one.Oh for sure he's always missing.And something is never quite right.Ah, but who would want to listen to youKissing his existence good night.
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I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.
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Shooting a season can be a grind. It can be seven to eight months of work. Once you stop, it slows down any momentum you had.
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I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
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It's an extraordinary thing to do, to go into the military and to serve your country.
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I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
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Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
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I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.
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We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.
