Eliza Farnham Quotes
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
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I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.
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The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.
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'I gather you were all too busy killing each other.''That’s a fairly reductive summary of our history, but I don’t suppose it’s too far from the truth.'
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Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.
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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
