Alan Paton Quotes
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.
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At no moment do I know what I’m talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.
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They attracted Hurricanes and Spitfires as honey attracts flies.
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I have learned a ton about inventory, co-packing, wholesaling, end caps. All these concepts are easy to breeze by in what I do for a living or assume that there is a marketing manager or specialist in one of our companies that handles that.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
