William Henry Drummond Quotes
Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.
Quotes to Explore
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I always wanted pink hair.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.
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The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.
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Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.
