George Davis Herron Quotes
The hope of the social reformer is to open wide the gates of opportunity, so that every creature, from the least to the greatest, may make his life a moral adventure and a joy, and exhaust his possibilities in the thing he can best do.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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When I began to write as a very young person in a rigidly racist and inhibited colonial society, I felt, as many others did, that I existed marginally on the edge of the world of ideas, of imagination and beauty. These, taking shape in poetry and fiction, drama, painting and sculpture, were exclusive to that distant realm known as 'overseas'.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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Le bonheur est salutaire pour le corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui développe les forces de l'esprit.
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I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.
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I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
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What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.
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The hope of the social reformer is to open wide the gates of opportunity, so that every creature, from the least to the greatest, may make his life a moral adventure and a joy, and exhaust his possibilities in the thing he can best do.
