Ariel Durant Quotes
If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
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Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.
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If I would have planned it, I would have had what Gosling has, that kind of art-house career.
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Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
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People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]
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The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
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If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.
