Marian Anderson Quotes
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
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You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong.
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
