William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Quotes

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

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• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  

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• I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

  Odette Annable
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• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  

  Barry Bonds
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• I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
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• I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

  

  Gary Becker
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• The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

  

  Saffron Burrows
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• 'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.

  

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• Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in companies we regulate in Congress, but somehow, our plumbing company crosses some line.

  

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• I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

  

  David LaChapelle
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• The maxims of men reveal their characters.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
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• I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

  

  James Gray
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• The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.

  

  Lee Unkrich
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• I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

  

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• If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

  

  Madison Davenport
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• Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal 'honor' and court etiquette.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.

  

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• In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

  

  Laurie Graham
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• Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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• Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

  

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
  • Children
  • Praise