Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
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I put up some great numbers.
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
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A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.
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The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
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In animation, no one gets to see your face, so you can really mess up with your voice like I did 'ParaNorman;' I was a bully in that, which was so much fun to do. In 'How to Train Your Dragon,' I'm a little Viking character. So, it's kind of exciting to play these roles that you normally wouldn't get to play in a live-action movie.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.
