Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.
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Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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We need a reset in the way the economy grows around the world.
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It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
