Thomas Becket Quotes

The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory, the inglorious triumphs, and the man who deserved bonds has carried off the prize.

Thomas Becket

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 21, 1119 - December 29, 1170

Topics

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If I feel like things are getting into a routine, I want them to be different. I need to keep improving and keep moving forward.

Joe Bonamassa

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It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.

Jerome Charyn

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The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.

Joel Coen

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Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

Roxane Gay

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Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.

Mike Posner

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People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

Martin Scorsese

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In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

Michael Korda

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I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.

Lorrie Fair

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When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

Anne Roiphe

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In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

Ava DuVernay

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I am anti-pants.

Lena Dunham

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Whenever anyone asked me what I'd do if I wasn't a singer, I'd say, 'Oh, I'd have a cooking show.'

Kimberly Schlapman

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