Edward Joseph Young Quotes
High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
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Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
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Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and of human liberty. It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation, to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests.
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
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Put it this way: singing is not my day job.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?
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The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Occasionally I volunteer in the kitchen of a pop-up supper club in L.A., which I really love. It's like being a line cook in a great restaurant for one night at a time.
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I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.
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High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.
