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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I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
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When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
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The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.
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Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong … And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
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I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
