Lyman Abbott Quotes
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I grew up on films.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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Novels are longer than life.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
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We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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You are the sun,You are the rainThat makes my life this foolish game.You need to knowI love you so.And I'd do it all again and again.
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Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new: Hail Atlantis!
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.
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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
