Edmund Morris Quotes
Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.
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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.
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Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.
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In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River.
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We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.
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I’m one of those people who struggles to relax, even though I know it’s important for my mental health.
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'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
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As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself.
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I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.
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They might not get in as early as they thought they would. I think that the numbers are tainted. You just don't hit 70 home runs and have guys hit it in back-to-back seasons. It opens your eyes that there's something wrong here.
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Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.
