William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Quotes

When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Want

• It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
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  • Health

• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
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• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Rich
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• My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Learn
  • Goal
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• People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
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• I'm not big on remakes.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Big

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
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  • Give Up

• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Good
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• I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

• I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live
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  • Happiness

• Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

  

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• The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

  

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• We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

  

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• In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

  

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  • Car

• The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Man
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  • Folly

• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Proud
  • Tradition
  • Self-Esteem

• Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Judgments
  • Astrology
  • Vanities

• You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

  

  Horace
  • Happiness
  • Laughter
  • Traverse

• When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

  

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
  • Science
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