Patrick Henry Quotes
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
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War is the science of destruction.
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I don't think anyone is pro-school shooting.
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All you can do is trust, be open and prepared, and you have to be flexible, as much as possible.
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My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
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My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
