Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
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But then history does not only consist of documents.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
