Akira Kurosawa Quotes, Character Quotes, May Quotes

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

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Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years for people to apply legally. And what's worse is, we keep on increasing the fees, so that if you've got a hard working immigrant family, they've got to hire a lawyer; they've got to pay thousands of dollars in fees. They just can't afford it. And it's discriminatory against people who have good character, we should want in this country, but don't have the money. So we've got to fix that.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Character Quotes

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sports Quotes , Character Quotes

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

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Tags : A.M. Homes Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Character Quotes , Two Quotes

"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood..."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Father Quotes , Character Quotes

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

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Tags : Aaron Gillespie Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Vigor Quotes

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Fate Quotes

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Character Quotes

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Strong Quotes , Character Quotes

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fall Quotes , Character Quotes

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Character Quotes , Giving Quotes

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Character Quotes

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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Tags : Alan Jay Lerner Quotes , Character Quotes , Faces Quotes