Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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I climb mountains.
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I don't want to be a pretty boy.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
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The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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A poem Ellen reads at the end of the first season of 'Ellen'. Longer version appears in her book, 'My Point... And I Do Have One'.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
