Christina Stead Quotes
Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
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When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.
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The waiter just flashed me something that said, "Chew bubblegum." Every morning, when I was about to go to the Oprah competition, my friend used to say this line in a video game to me: "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum." There's a strict policy that you can't encourage anyone on a reality show, that would give them an edge.
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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.
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I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
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First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.
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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!
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After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.
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It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.
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After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?
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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.
