Maria Weston Chapman Quotes
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I am humbled at the fact that I always get great support and reviews from my critics, but it's the film that requires to be good enough for it to work.
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Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
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If you asked him, he would say the only connection between free will and religion in his life was the fact that he hadn’t set foot in a synagogue since he turned eighteen.
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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
