William Borah Quotes
No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
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Taking care of yourself is so important.
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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
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I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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The poignancy which all beauty has.
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If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.
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El misterio apacigua mis ojos, no los ciega.
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My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.
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I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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If we turn a blind eye to the fact that your opinion is entirely wrong, you're quite right.
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In the lost battle,Borne down by the flying,Where mingles war's rattleWith groans of the dying.
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No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.
