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There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly. ↗


— Kay Bailey Hutchison


#clearly #did #different #election #elections

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. ↗


— Hypatia


#after #believes #child #fables #fantasies

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. ↗


— Rhys Ifans


#art #artisan #artist #became #becomes

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests. ↗


— Henry Irving


#everything #fancy #forth #into #intonation

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts. ↗


— Alla Nazimova


#breeze #character #harps #hung #instrument

Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed. ↗


— Josh Holloway


#go #got #huge #killed #maybe

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. ↗


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


#much #only #power #powerful #prize

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV. ↗


— Rupert Holmes


#arenas #became #because #clubs #concerts

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. ↗


— Fred Hoyle


#car #could #drive #go #hour

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs. ↗


— Kurt Huber


#citizen #destiny #duty #expose #german






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