Jacob Epstein Quotes
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.
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In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.
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It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.
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We are just party people. We always had a drink in the evening with the music on and space to dance. It was that kind of a family.
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Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
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I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
