Gerald Heaney Quotes
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.
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There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!
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We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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When I start to write and record a track, I always think about where it is supposed to take place, what kind of room that is, and what kind of atmosphere it should have. Also how it should be performed, and by what kind of musicians or vocalists. I work in a very theatrically minded sort of way.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.
