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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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
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I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work.
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
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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.
