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“For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.”

Long Ideas Mother Father Given Hurt Great Gifts Hurting Someone

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.”

Mind Long Play Character Guy Father Given Changed Lovers Illusion Wide Range Villain Cop Bad Guys

Author:Navid Negahban

“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.”

Long Important Moments Political Given Careers Modern Fronts Lucky Journalism Seats Political Life Long Careers Important Moments

Author:Judy Woodruff

“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”

Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

“Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.”

Men World Long Stills Problem Earth Political Found Given Nations Grows Liberty Mankind Revolution Proud Degrees Solutions Universal Capability Germs Political Freedom Political Revolution

Book:Lincoln Speeches

Source: Lincoln Speeches

“The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."”

Source: Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction

“You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

Years Long Different Ends Lasts Three Given Five Four Periods Exciting Different Experiences

Author:Morgan Freeman

“We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.”

Trying Long Important Purpose Artist Given Stuff Space Evoke

Author:Robert Genn

“By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.”

Source: The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms

“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.”

World May Long Doe Has Beens Given Natural Danger Periods Findings Employment Occupation Retirement Retiring Indispensable Accustomed Given Up Calculating New Business

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.”

Years Long Home Care Joy Humanity Given Flower Sorrow Forests Thee Heirs

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.”

World Long Running Given Policy Benefits Trade Agreement Foreign Policy Long Runs Trade Agreements Dislocation

Author:David Brooks

“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion

“So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.”

Believe Long Two Hate Names Given Sides Moral Authority Terror Ecstasy Love And Hate Epitome Moral Authority

Book:Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

Source: Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

“No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.”

“To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.”

Ifs Knows Giving Long Book Past Asks Given Answers Written Periods Ask Me This Day Given Up

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.”

World Want Long Character Stories Literature Given Ability Chains Agents Host Publishers Librarian Booksellers

Author:Karl Marlantes

“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”

Writing Trying Long Action Lasts Given Memories Practice Ears Casts Pens Polish Paragraph Deposits Mould

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

“I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.”

Trying Long Enough Given Women Mystery Roots Mere Squares Quantity Introduction Given Up Square Roots

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.”

Thinking Long Evil Given Heaven Born Adversity Fortune Endure Contrary Tricks Wicked Prisoner God's Love Constellations Saturn

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.”

Men Long Stills Done Young House Given Known Subjects Position Politician Married Clothes Standing Careful Compromise Young Man Given Up Fitting Gout

Book:The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

Source: The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at a given time. And since it does not really believe in the power of argument, its last resort is generally a claim to superior wisdom, based on some self-arrogated superior quality.”

Believe Long Doe Ideas Self Lasts Belief Given Quality Authority Argument Claims Fundamentals Bounds Superiors Range Liberalism Resorts Conservatism Power Of Ideas

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.”

Ifs Way Trying Long Reason Use Given Behinds Talent Higher Higher Power If There Is A God

Author:Bert McCracken

“I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.”

Heart Long Lasts Three Given Football Managers Soccer Chairman Heart Attack Goalkeepers

Author:Terry Venables

“The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.”

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.”

“We want stuff done right. As long as it's my team, I'll voice my opinion. Yep, it's my team. You media guys might give it to him, like you've given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel's ship. And if we're not right, I'm going to go out there and try to get it right... Just ask Karl and Garywhy they wanted to come here. It was because of one person, not two. One.”

Ifs Want Giving Trying Persons Long Two Done Whole Might Wanted Guy Asks Given Stuff Voice Opinion Team Media Like You Basketball Lifetime Whole Life Ships Diesel Lakers

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading, and will also be a prime source for scholars long into the future.”

Wells Long Reading Given Written Source Accounts Insight Objectives Fascinating Prime Scholar Diplomacy Well Written Gorbachev

Author:Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

“I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Important Book Ideas Use Together Given Loses Effects Personality Sight Impression Quotations Climax Art Of Writing

Author:George Eliot

“Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.”

Long Given Intuition Preparation

Author:Louis Pasteur

“The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.”

“A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.”

Ifs Wells Long Might Romance Fall Given Term Seasons Rose Plant Long Term Rose Bush

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.”

Thinking Men Children Long Has Beens I Can Given Heaven Waiting Grateful Verses Child Of God

Author:Ann Voskamp

“People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Long Has Beens Problem Running Reading Given Intellectual Publishing Proven Output Pseudo Cartels Snobby Pseudo Intellectuals

Author:Tucker Max

“Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]”

Long Death Given Heaven Gates Gates Of Heaven

Author:Thomas Heywood

“The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.”

People Persons Long Happens Given Results Thousand Long Time Prejudice Pressure Chains Obscure Reformers Modification Cumulative

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We just have to be quiet enough to let that course of action present itself to us. And we need the confidence to act when life shows us what we need to do.”

Knows Needs Believe Long Enough Shows Action Courses Given Levels Situation Confidence Quiet Standing Tradition Buddhist Stillness

Book:Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

“It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.”

Persons Long Remember Given Easy Pay Harder Cynical Subway Supermarkets Sorrowful Tubs Beside You Yogurt

Author:Rob Payne

“The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago”

Long Given Tree Long Time Long Time Ago Glitter Ornaments Christmas Tree Gift Of Love

Author:Tom Baker

“So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.”

May Long Self Might Given Path Losing Discovery Self Discovery Sufficient Temporary Conventions Shelter Adequate Suffocating

Book:On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life

Source: On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life

“All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.”

People Way Want Littles Long Has Beens Given Perceive Distraction

Author:Hope Solo

“Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little given the magnitude of America's moral decay. Since 1988, the new leaders have recognized that incrementalism is the surest path to success in political competition. The current movement is committed to securing small victories now, postponing for the long-term more fundamental changes in society and politics.”

“When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.”

“I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.”

Thinking Want Long Enough Given Heaven Boys Pieces Glory Fairs Presses Rewards Pie Fleeting Good Boy

Author:Jack White

“We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.”

World Years Long Country Problem Faces Given Force Lessons Majors Recovery Convince Afghanistan Warfare Magnitude Devastated Haul Lesson Learned Long Haul

Author:Alexander Haig

“I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.”

Feels Long Film Given Chance Class Saws Long Time Classic Long Time Ago Really Long Good Chance Classic Films

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs in their old purity. It is my hope that we will all love and guard our beautiful sign language as the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.”

People Long Earth Beautiful Film Language Given Preserves Purity Deaf Deafness Sign Language

Author:George Veditz

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