Albert Pike Quotes
There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
Quotes to Explore
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.
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Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.
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And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.
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I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
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I am the last President of the United States!
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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
