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Michael Novak Quotes

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Michael Novak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: September 9, 1933 - February 17, 2017

Topics

Character Literature Years Last Pope

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Matthew Hale

Small Reputation Tongue You Praise

Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

Anna Chlumsky

Business College Done Two Years

You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.

Michael Eric Dyson

Life Simple Death Words Man King

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

Mercy Otis Warren

Progress Ideas Revolution American

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

Michelle Williams

I Am Happy Me Be Happy Want Mean

I actually grew up in the 'burbs - New Rochelle, specifically, most famously home to Rob and Laura Petrie of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

Joshua Malina

Actor Anything Different Been Else

I don't go in for the high-end gyms with the high-tech equipment and all the fancy stuff.

Jason Statham

Go Fancy Stuff Equipment High-Tech

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Joseph Butler

Good Compassion Balance Evil Doubt

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

Chris Sacca

Simplicity Easy Build Hard Charge

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'

Clint Eastwood

Me Remember You Pictures Things

Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.

Anthony Russo

Character Brain Moving Start Forward

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Ausonius

Birthday Happiness Age Time Old Age