Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes

I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 9, 1802 - November 7, 1837

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When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

Jeffrey Wright

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Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

John Keegan

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Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

Andy Hertzfeld

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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Jeff Bezos

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For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Steven Spielberg

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I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.

Rosemary Mahoney

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If you got a stuntman that can do it better than me, go do it. But if they can't do it better than me, I'm doing it myself - plain and simple.

Michael Rooker

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It's a shame that so many people are so intimidated and bothered by Tim Tebow's stance as a Christian. He's not bothering anybody. He's simply being who He is and giving all glory to His Lord.

Monica Johnson

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However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

Dorothy Denning

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I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.

Susanne Bier

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I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

Shane Black

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The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

Ninette de Valois

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