Edmund Morgan Quotes
Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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If you believe in your value, how could it possibly be appropriate to hide it from people who need it?
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I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.
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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
