Edwin Paxton Hood Quotes
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
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Love food and I love to eat.
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I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.
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I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.
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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...
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The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
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No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.
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An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
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The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.
