eL Seed Quotes
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.
Quotes to Explore
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
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I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
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And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.
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On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.
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Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?
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Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
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The wonderful thing about romance is that there are so many flavors of it!
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Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
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We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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They all want your white body, and they await your reply.But, between you and me, and this Staten Island ferry... so do I...
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Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.
