Edith Hamilton Quotes
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Quotes to Explore
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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 made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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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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If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
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Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.
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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.
