William Greenough Thayer Shedd Quotes
There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.
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I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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Not my idea of God, but God.
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
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Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.
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I think the strength of the man is to have the right balance. Not to be so high when you win; not to be so down when you lose.
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I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.
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People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they're living in.
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I don't really leave the house.
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I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
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If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
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Now the sun touched the horizon and the man reined in his horse tiredly, glad that the time for prayer had come.
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There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
