Ralph Waite Quotes
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.
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No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
