Woodrow M. Kroll Quotes
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Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.
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Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
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come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.
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When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
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The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.
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Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
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We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.
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I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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We all work for the president, and we all will ultimately follow his direction.
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Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.
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I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
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I have no complaints at all, ... We knew exactly what we had to do. We had an opportunity to do it. We just fell a little bit short. We knew what the rules were.
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Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!
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In the Laws of Cnut, it was formally laid down that no one is to bother the King with his complaints, so long as he can get Justice in the Hundred.
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Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
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'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' was the only time I've been directed properly.
