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Harold Acton Quotes

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: english
Birth: July 5, 1904 - 1994

Topics

Say More Real Regrets Paper Than

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

I Am Believe Artist Done Want Act

There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.

Beautiful Soft Something Arms Very

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

Blue Book Pen Way Always Colour

Patagonia, a large apparel manufacturer based in Ventura, California, has organized itself as a 'B-corporation.' That's a for-profit company whose articles of incorporation require it to take into account the interests of workers, the community, and the environment, as well as shareholders.

Community Environment California Take

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Peace War Risks Question Europe Who

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.

Child Book Reading Know Lazy Want

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.

Progress Memory Slavery Believe End

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

Michael Nesmith

People Small You Civilization Want

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Dirk Kempthorne

Community Alone Government Homeless

Priyanka Chopra has made a huge impact on me.

Me Impact Huge Impact Made Huge

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Think Enlightenment You Will Own

I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.

Family People Me Think Care Friends

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