Lewis Cass Quotes
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
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Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
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Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.
