Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.
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I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.
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I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.
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I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.
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Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
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The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
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If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.
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I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.
