Edward Young Quotes
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Quotes to Explore
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.
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Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,And think they grow immortal as they quote.
