Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes

But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.

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• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

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• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

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• When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

  

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• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  

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• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

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• I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

  

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• Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

  

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• I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

  

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• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

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• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

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• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  

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• You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

  

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• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  

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• I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

  

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• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

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• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

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• Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.

  

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• We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

  

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• Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

  

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• It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

  

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• Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

  

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• Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

  

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• But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Independent
  • Belief
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