Arthur Helps Quotes
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
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For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.
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We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country
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We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.
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I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
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I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.
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I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
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She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It's like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?
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Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.
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You're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.
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It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.
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I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.
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The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
