Clarence Darrow Quotes
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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With every social media, there's hate and things like that.
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I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
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I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
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The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God’s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.
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Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him. Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.
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Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
