Leonard Woolf Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.
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What is well planted will not be uprooted.
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Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
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I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
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I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!'
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There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
