Quotes by Laurence Overmire - Page 1

Life is a poem most people never read.
Laurence Overmire / Actor
Life Is
People
Reading
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The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.
Laurence Overmire / Actor
Learning
War
Ideas
Lost
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God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.
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Power
Fear
Men
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Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.
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Children
Humanity
World
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Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.
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Art
Poetry
Language
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Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.
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Creativity
Roots
This Life
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Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.
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Learning
Firsts
Ignorance
Steps
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Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.
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Dead People
Easy
People
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Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.
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Animal
Heart
Serious
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To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.
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Heart
Silence
Universe
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History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
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Historical
Humanity
Remember
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Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
Laurence Overmire / Actor
Interesting
Never Quit
Real
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We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.
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Opportunity
Generations
Real
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Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.
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Art
Art Is
Cry
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Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
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Life
Acceptance
Disappointment
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Love is the great truth we all know in our hearts and must eventually recognize.
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Heart
Love Is
Soul
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Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.
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Brother
Corporations
States
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The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.
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Kindness
Future
Generosity
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Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.
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Apathy
Body
Poison
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Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.
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Matter
Real
World
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I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.
Laurence Overmire / Actor
Future
Revision
Thinking
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Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
Laurence Overmire / Actor
Kindness
Cruelty
Heart
Mind
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The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.
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Might
People
World
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Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.
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Dangerous
Hatred
World
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When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.
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Different
Looks
Persons
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There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
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Dream
Artist
Refusal
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From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.
Laurence Overmire / Actor
Darkness
Light
Torches
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There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
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Life
Mind
Refuse
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If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?
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Men
Thinking
Years
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War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
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War
Ideas
Spring
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There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.
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Dream
Doing Nothing
Ends
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Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.
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Done
Thinking
Worthwhile
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Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.
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Helping
Overcoming
Reality
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Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.
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Dark
Doors
Expression
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Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.
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Deception
Honest
Overcoming
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You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.
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Appreciation
Art
Smile
Light
Rocks
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There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.
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Future
Commitment
Giving
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Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time-to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You carry the hopes and dreams of all those who have gone before. Hopes and dreams for a better world. What will you do with your time on this Earth? How will you contribute to the ongoing story of humankind?
Laurence Overmire / Actor
Dream
Giving
Responsibility
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