Edwin Forrest Quotes
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.
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Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.
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I'm the most boring person to talk to.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
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A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.
