Edwin Muir Quotes
I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.
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I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.
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And all now is war Where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.
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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
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I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.
