Quotes 3821 till 3840 of 10005.
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In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
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In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst us arises from an imperfect understanding of one another.
Source: Speech Birmingham’s Town Hall 30 december 1853 -
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
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In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
Source: The New Yorker, March 28, 1953, quoted in David Remnick, Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100, The New Yorker, March 29, 2004
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