Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's kind of a spiritual experience.
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Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
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Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
