Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over,… — R. Lee Ermey Copy Share Image
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned from 22 July is that we have to take seriously all those people who take part in… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence… Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume… — Ralph Miller Copy Share Image
“our tendencies with their habitual story lines are described as seeds in the unconscious. When the right causes and conditions come together,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way. — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake,… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his… — William James Copy Share Image
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“Football Coaches do play football matches; their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before… — William Inge Copy Share Image
There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can… — Alexander Wang Copy Share Image
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
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