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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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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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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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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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.
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I can’t do it, Joachim. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. A long leash is still a leash. And Coransee will still be at the other end of it, holding on.
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
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If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
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The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work.
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Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.
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I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission.
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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.
