James Madison Quotes
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.
Quotes to Explore
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Faith is important to me.
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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
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The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
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Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.
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We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.
