Samuel Alexander Quotes
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I just want to do my job.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.
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There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life.
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The kind of contact that they make with the customer is what brings them back to shop. The experience, the feeling that you have in the store is what makes the difference.
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Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
