Karl Hess Quotes
No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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I love making shorts out of jeans, or customizing denim. Basically, I like to rip and distress things... I love that look.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.
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They bring my music to life.
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I have never been particularly picky when it comes to what I'm putting in my hair. Most of it is just the genes I'm so fortunate to have inherited from my parents.
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I do really well under pressure.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
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Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.
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I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.
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No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
