Denison Witmer Quotes

I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.

Denison Witmer

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• Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • People
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• I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Age
  • Loved
  • Animals

• In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Words
  • Star
  • Never

• There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Rights
  • Where
  • Limit

• A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Health
  • Care
  • Insurance

• I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Enough
  • Old
  • Without

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Win
  • Guilty
  • Will

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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  • Done

• I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Music
  • Home
  • Think

• I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, 19The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,- And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.

  

  Liang Wengen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

  

  Donna Reed

• Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Done

• I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Important
  • Help
  • Technology

• A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Dream

• I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!

  

  Jessica Biel
  • World
  • Believe
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• I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Modern
  • Admire
  • Contribution

• We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Peace
  • Leadership

• I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Up
  • Family
  • Beauty

• Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

  

  Joan Baez
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • Catholic
  • Fascinated
  • Pennsylvania