George Sarton Quotes
Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.
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When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.
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I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.
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I have always supported, and support today, equal rights for women, particularly in the workplace.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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It is my view that Richard Clarke's testimony before the joint inquiry will shed light on the issues without compromising national security.
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In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.
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Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.
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Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.
