Orson F. Whitney Quotes
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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'Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.'
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One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.
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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are.
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Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
