Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.
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I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
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They her parents still highly encourage me to come home ... but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're disappointed in me, and that for me is kind of hard.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
