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Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
– John Ashcroft
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Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
– Anne Besant
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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
– Marie Henri Beyle
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Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
– James Bridie
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
– Phillips Brooks
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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
– William Carleton
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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Pride sullies the noblest character.
– Claudianus
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In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
– Henry Clay
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When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
– Confucius
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
– Confucius
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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
– Joan Didion
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
– Isabelle Eberhardt
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
– James Anthony Froude
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A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
– Sir James Glover
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
– Alexander Hamilton
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A man's character is his fate.
– Heraclitus
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
– Hermann Hesse
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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
– Paxton Hood
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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
– Marie Leneru
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Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
– Horace Mann
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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
– Claiborne Pell
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Character is what you are in the dark.
– American Proverb
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That which you call your soul or spirit is your conciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
– Ayn Rand
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
– Ronald Reagan
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
– George Santayana
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
– Solon
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
– Herbert Spencer
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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
– Francis Thompson
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
– Henry David Thoreau
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It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.
– Pope Pius XI
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If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character of uselessness.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
– John Wooden
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You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
– Scott Bakula
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You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
– Keanu Reeves
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
– Harvey Fierstein
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You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.
– David R. Ellis
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
– Laura Carmichael
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You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
– Jennifer Lopez
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You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
– William J. H. Boetcker
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You can't just trust to luck you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
– Estelle Parsons
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You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
– Hank Azaria
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Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
– Orlando Bloom
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Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
– William Shatner
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Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
– Emily Giffin
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Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
– William Moulton Marston
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With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.
– Mira Nair
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With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
– Norman Jewison
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With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.
– Terry Eagleton
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With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
– Dan Lipinski
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.
– Jon Meacham
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While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
– Tom Allen
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
– Victoria Abril
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
– Balthazar Getty
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When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.
– Josh Hutcherson
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
– Alice Cooper
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
– Vincent D'Onofrio
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When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
– Stephen Covey
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When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.
– Ashley Judd
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When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
– William Shatner
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What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.
– John Mayer
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
– Pete Townshend
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What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
– Jim Carrey
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What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?
– Mitt Romney
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Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
– Amanda Peet
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Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
– Rashida Jones
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Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.
– Max Cannon
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We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.
– David Oyelowo
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
– Oliver Joseph Lodge
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.
– David Cameron
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We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
– George Saunders
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We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
– Kate Mulgrew
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We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
– Marco Rubio
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We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.
– Christopher Nolan
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We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
– Luke Scott
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Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
– Emmitt Smith
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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
– James Buchan
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True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
– Corliss Lamont
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Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.
– Will Smith
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To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
– Billy West
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This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.
– Monica Lewinsky
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
– Lin Yutang
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
– Richard Powers
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This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
– Adam Sandler
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They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.
– Curtis Joseph
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They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
– Tina Yothers
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These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
– Michael N. Castle
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
– Idris Elba
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There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.
– Olivia Thirlby
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