If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
We both [me and Eugene Levy] come from the same place. Eugene did most of his work in SCTV and ensemble situations.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO. She moved seamlessly… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think… — James Salter Copy Share Image
How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I like Twitter more than Facebook. Twitter is a great way to deliver and get news. In news writing less is more… — Tom Llamas Copy Share Image
Obviously I'm grayer, a few more wrinkles. One of the things I'm proud about is that I think my basic character and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
I think you just have to give the audience a character that they can relate to. So I'm always trying to put… — Ti West Copy Share Image
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to reveal, and what behaviors… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We write for actors and even down to the smallest character in the film, they all have their moment. You take that… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New… — John Waters Copy Share Image
There's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“You should not be esteemed by others if you have no real inner virtue. People here in Japan esteem others on the… — Dogen Zenji Copy Share Image
There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We're so obsessed with, 'Is Michael Cohen going to jail or not? Is Rod Rosenstein going to be fired? What did Trump… — Daniel Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak… — William Patten Copy Share Image
Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us,… — Johnny Simmons Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Kant finds that the ‘virtue of the heart’ is central and emphasizes the role of the understanding and concepts at the expense… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
What I had found after the success of Karate Kid II is that an actor basically needs to - a primary requirement… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“Kant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other… — Andre Compte-Sponville Copy Share Image
Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It was great, because as far as playing such an iconic character that Cinderella is from the Disney world, walking into such… — Dania Ramirez Copy Share Image
What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Morality was viewed by the Egyptians not as the assertion of self against the world but rather as the individual search for… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
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![“It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the…” quote by John Ratzenberger](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f18/john-ratzenberger-11869_book_it-was-the-last-generation-of-writers-th_219130.jpg)
![“Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.” quote by John Waters](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ef0/john-waters-751_best-sellers_insider-can-be-more-ludicrous-how-did-i_2018014.jpg)
![“American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as…” quote by Philip Roth](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/930/philip-roth-681_american-society_american-society-not-only-sanctions-gros_771264.jpg)
