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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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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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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My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!
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He wears the rose Of youth upon him.
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The stream is always purer at its source.
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Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.
