Patrick Henry Quotes
Behind every great leader, at the base of every great tale of success, you will find an indispensable circle of trusted advisors, mentors, and colleagues.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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Boxing is a lonely sport.
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For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
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I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
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You have people around the country who are benefitting from the steps that we've taken [with Obamacare] and as long as they continue to get helped, then at least I'll know in my own mind that the work we did here had a lasting impact.
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Behind every great leader, at the base of every great tale of success, you will find an indispensable circle of trusted advisors, mentors, and colleagues.
