William Ramsay Quotes
Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.
Quotes to Explore
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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There's a common misconception that you don't need SPF during the grey winter months, but it's so important to protect skin from UVA/UVB rays year-round.
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For peace to come, it is time for them - and all of us - to live up to our responsibilities.
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Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.
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'Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.'
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
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When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now.
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Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
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It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.
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Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.
