Chris Prentiss Quotes
The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.Chris Prentiss
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells -
What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
Jack Keane -
Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
Fidel Castro -
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
Victoria Pendleton -
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas -
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
Kate Baldwin -
It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
Vidya Balan -
I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
Victoria Principal -
There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Life is a journey which is far more enjoyable when your holding hands with the ones you love
Abhishek Bachchan -
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtleAre emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
Lord Byron
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Livy -
Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
Albert Hofmann -
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
Leonardo da Vinci -
'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
Lewis Carroll -
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
Leland Stanford -
I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
Edmund Morgan -
The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
Erykah Badu -
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
Vandana Shiva -
The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
Chris Prentiss