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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child… — Anne Sullivan Macy
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual to get a better view of what is possible. — Mary Anne Radmacher
I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing… — Sanaa Lathan
Digital music boils down the actual musical experience. — Simon Le Bon
I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job -… — Thomas Lennon
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at… — Edgar Wright
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. — Rowan Williams
Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel. — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life… — Theodore L. Cuyler
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the… — Monique Wittig
In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount… — Wernher von Braun
As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual… — Frederick Salomon Perls
The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation. — Bill Cosby
Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we… — William Crookes
I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My… — Jack Canfield
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling… — William Faulkner
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but… — Ben H. Winters
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may… — Joseph Priestley
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning… — Kenneth Branagh
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without… — Henry Fuseli
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. — Hans Morgenthau
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories. — Errol Morris
The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it.… — Jeffrey Bewkes
I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me.… — Katie Cassidy

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