Cecil Rhodes Quotes
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
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IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.
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Without God all things are permitted.
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I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go.
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On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.
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She's the original good time who was had by all.
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A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.
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I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
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Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
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Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book.
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The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
