Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.
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I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic, and I'm not a comic person - it's just not my thing, so I'm not looking in that direction - but ambitious films on a big scale I'm very interested in looking at.
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The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
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There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.
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I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.
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If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.
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People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!
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The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
