Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
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I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust-a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
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The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
