Archibald Alexander Quotes
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!
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If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.
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It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.
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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
