John Burnham Schwartz Quotes

The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces.

John Burnham Schwartz

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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Tony Blair

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I never thought about settling down. I was obsessed with my career - I was blinkered. I finally met a woman who was worthy of me. Then we settled down and had many children.

Ron Moody

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This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

Louise Slaughter

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I've always been very un-fun. I'm a habit person. I have a very weak version of an addictive personality.

Josh Gondelman

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I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you think, 'If Uma can take it, what's the matter with me?'

Dennis Christopher

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I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

China Machado

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Everybody gives Trump an extremely bad rap. He's a businessman, so he is not trying to rub your back and tell you everything is going to be OK. He is going to set standards and, when everything is in chaos, you need someone who is willing to do what needs to be done.

Bobby Lashley

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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan

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I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

Anna Torv

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The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control.

Phil Humber

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While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.

Peter Saul

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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Peter Singer

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