Edgar Dale Quotes
One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else— the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film or speaker banned because otherwise he himself might be harmed.Edgar Dale
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
Adam Peaty -
Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
Lane Garrison -
Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
Rafael Nadal -
I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
Halle Berry -
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Salman Rushdie -
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
Adam McKay
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie -
My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
Caleb Carr -
I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
Victoria Justice -
A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
Flann O'Brien -
I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
Samira Wiley
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
Aldo Leopold -
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
Al Sharpton -
There are a lot of good actresses out there.
Benicio Del Toro -
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
Laura Mvula -
The sea is the universal sewer.
Jacques Yves Cousteau -
What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.
Joseph Stalin -
Does the hon. Gentleman accept that some of us oppose the agreement for reasons other than those that he has given? We believe that the agreement strengthens rather than weakens the border between the six and the 26 counties, and those of us who wish to see a United Ireland oppose the agreement for that reason.
Jeremy Corbyn -
I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.
Angelina Jolie -
One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else— the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film or speaker banned because otherwise he himself might be harmed.
Edgar Dale