#essential

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility. ↗

— Claire Danes

#because #been #being #college #discover

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#clear #doctrine #essential #found #gives

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#civil #civil war #essentially #forced #iraq

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. ↗

— Alice Walker

#black #despair #enough #entirely #essential

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#actor #basic #essential #great #himself

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#child #essential #food #hates #just

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#bracket #capital #capital gains #child #create

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#cannot #capacity #confined #essential #gift

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this. ↗

— John Whitehead

#already #british #children #ensure #essential