Claude Rains Quotes
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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As an Iranian woman and activist, Sotoudeh's plight resonated with me on a deeply personal level.
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And you can't go, 'There's a hair in my Jell-O. I'd like to send this back. Can I see the cook, please?' The cook is a big dude named Bubba Joe.
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It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.
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We need to get out of the old language.
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A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.
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When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.
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Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
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I have been an everyday player my whole career.
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I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.
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The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?
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I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.
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Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.
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If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.
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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.
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This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.
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Take part. Contribute. Be interested in everything and everybody.
