Quotes 4721 till 4740 of 5636.
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To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.
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Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
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Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
Source: Rolling Stones The Immortals (2004) -
Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
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Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.
Source: The King Beyond the Gate (1985) -
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
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