Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
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The hour that followed was a long hour.
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
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We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.
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We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.
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Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
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What more pleasing prospect can be opened to our view than the boundless field of nature? not only comprehending the inhabitants of earth, sea, and air; but earth, sea and air themselves—presenting an inexhaustible fund for amusing and useful enquiry.
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Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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There is such a shelter in each other.
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'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.
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Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.
