Edith Hamilton Quotes
Happiness is The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I just want to do my job.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.
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Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
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Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.
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Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.
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Happiness is The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.
