William Johnson Cory Quotes
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition.
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Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.
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I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know.
