William Coperthwaite Quotes
It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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Cause all I know is we said helloAnd your eyes look like coming home.All I know is a simple name, everything has changed.All I know is we held the door,You'll be mine and I'll be yours.All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.
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God is a flowing well which constantly may pour Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.
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I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.
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If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
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No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.
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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
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When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
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I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.
