| Just some quotes I've stumbled upon and needed a place to save them. |
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| "The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous." -margot fonteyn ... "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing...it was here first." -mark twain "Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all." -dear john |
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| "America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say: You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the land of the free." - Aaron Sorkin, The American President |
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| "In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." -- Baba Dioum "The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal -- to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves." -- Scott Turow |
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“Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies. The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”
-J.K. Rowling
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Not all those who wander are lost."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
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"There is nothing like looking if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
-Braveheart
"Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion."
-Michael Jordan
"Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Others make it happen."
-Michael Jordan
"Dare to know."
-Immanuel Kant
"Life's better with company."
-Up in the Air
"Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship."
-William P. Young
"Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."
-It's a Wonderful Life
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
-Aristotle
"Always try to see life around you as if you'd just come out of a tunnel."
-Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
"It's like in the great stories, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something...that there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
-The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
"Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery. You'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than just jungle law, fighting so he can stand on his own two feet, free and decent, like he was created, no matter what his race, color, or creed. That's what you'd see. There's no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties. And it's not too late, because this country is bigger than the Taylors, or you, or me, or anything else. Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here. You just have to see them again."
-Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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