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When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.
Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.
We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.
He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.
A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.
I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.
My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context
It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.
I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.
What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.
The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.
Again, I repeat, don’t ask questions you don’t want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)
There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.
I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.
Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"
But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.
Jennifer Palmieri and Joel Benenson and all these people on Hillary's [Clinton] side just can't come to grips with the fact that they lost.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed.
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.
She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.
I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.
It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.
The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.