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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Dreams never wear you down.
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Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.
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Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.
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Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
