Elizabeth Inchbald Quotes
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.
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Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
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In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.
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I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.
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Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.
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If a starving bear ate my family, even though he may have had no wicked intentions, even though he was just being a bear, his nature has made him a menace.
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We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'
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The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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They reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.
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The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.
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It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We've always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that.
