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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Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.
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Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.
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Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
