Edith Hamilton Quotes
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
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I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
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My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
