Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.
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I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.
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Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
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I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
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I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
