Leon Trotsky Quotes
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
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In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.
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We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
