Shows Quotes - Page 39

• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fear, Lying, Knowing

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.44, University of Georgia Press

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• I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

  Veronica Lake

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

  Andrew Mellon

  Taxation, Pressure, Taxpayers

  Andrew W. Mellon (2016). “Taxation: The People’s Business”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Yield, Government, People

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• I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

  Leon Redbone

  Different, Location, Strange

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• If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Falling In Love, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea

  Allison Glock

  Crazy, Issues, Tea

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• Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.

  Monique Truong

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

  Stefan Petrucha

  Real, Hero, Ocean

  Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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• I am writing for the Christian agnostic, by which I mean a person who is immensely attracted to Christ and who seeks to show his spirit, to meet the challenges, hardships, and sorrows of life in the light of that spirit, but who, though he is sure of many Christian truths, feels that he cannot honestly and conscientiously 'sign on the dotted line' that he believes certain theological ideas about what some branches of the Church dogmatize.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Christian, Believe, Writing

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• Surveys show that more than 50 percent of people in the U.S. have prayed the sinner's prayer and think they're going to heaven because of it even though there is no detectable difference in their lifestyles from those outside of the church. On this issue- the most important issue on earth- we have to be absolutely clear. We need to preach salvation by repentance before God and faith in the finished work of Christ.

  J. D. Greear

  Prayer, Thinking, Differences

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• God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

  Lester Roloff

  Blessing, Poor, Needy

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• Warren Berger’s book is a cure for a disease in large enterprises. A More Beautiful Question provides a framework to help leaders ask the most important questions—which is one of the most fundamental characteristics of a great leader—while sharing inspiring stories to show the incredible power of this concept.

  Jim Stengel

  Beautiful, Book, Leader

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• I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.

  Andre Benjamin

  Real, Thinking, Clothes

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• I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Independence, Age, Wells

  "The Doyenne Of The Drawing Room" by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 1981.

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• I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

  Rick Mercer

  Night, Bed, Tomorrow

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

  Richard O'Brien

  Different, Sometimes, Individual

  Metro Interview, metro.co.uk. OCtober 27, 2009.

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• What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Air, Trying

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• It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

  Nia Vardalos

  Trying, Actors, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

  James W. Loewen

  Ideas, United States, Doe

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.83, The New Press

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• It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Prayer, Believe, Giving

  J. M. G. Le Clézio (1993). “The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations”, p.111, University of Chicago Press

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• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  Fanny Burney

  Player, Finding The One, Mind

  Fanny Burney (1857). “Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.93

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• I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

  Candace Cameron

  Couple, School, Years

  "Candace Cameron Bure: 'When I Was 17'". Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. September 18, 2009.

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• I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Strange, Advocating, British

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• My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Children, Book

  "For Patriotism and Profit". Interview with Robert Fisk, www.worldpress.org. July 2001.

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