George Pope Morris Quotes
A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
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A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny; if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
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When there's anything to steal, I steal
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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There’s so much goodness there, and such a value placed on education, which is sort of universal among Jews around the world. I appreciate that obviously, to be a part of that.
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These problems do not disappear just because we do not hear about them. There is so much more happening around the world than what is communicated to us about the top stories we do hear. We all need to look deeper and discover for ourselves.... What is the problem? Where is it? How can we help to solve it?
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Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
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There have been times when I have goofed up, and like every adolescent, I sometimes did get led the wrong way. I would come back home really scared to face my mom's wrath and anger, but surprisingly, I never got to face one. She would always tell me in a very nice manner that what I did was wrong and that I should correct myself.
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I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.
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Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
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Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with Big Little Lies script. It just kind of flowed out.
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A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.
