Edmund Morris Quotes
Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.
Edmund Morris
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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
Lee Iacocca
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
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When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.
William Sanderson
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
Albert Camus
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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.
Tom Odell
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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.
Bent Larsen
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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.
Aurel Stein
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We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
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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.
Nicole Burnham
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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.
Rick Riordan
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
William Wordsworth
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The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
Hannah Arendt
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I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.
Tony Abbott
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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.
Rick Perry
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We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.
Tony Abbott
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Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face,
for i see you there,
my dear.
Rumi
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Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.
Edmund Morris
