Warren St. John Quotes
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.
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The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
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People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
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I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.
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I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
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To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.
