Karl G. Maeser Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
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And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.
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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
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I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.
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My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game as far as just taking me to the driving range where I grew up playing. That was really all he had to do was let me hit a golf ball and kind of fell in love with it from there. He didn't really have to teach me a whole lot or anything.
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Our characters are the result of our conduct.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
