#wise

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If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.


James Callaghan


#always #bad #contingent #law #otherwise

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.


Brendan Fehr


#because #camera #character #excuse #feel

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.


Naomi Campbell


#doing #i #job #me #must

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.


Jane Campion


#better #cinema #conservative #daring #go

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.


Claudia Cardinale


#kind #lose #otherwise #personality #strong

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.


Thomas Carlyle


#barrels #could #covered #emerged #follow

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.


Thomas Carlyle


#each #far #foolish #himself #know

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.


Andrew Carnegie


#difficult #difficult task #distribution #i #infinitely

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?


Leslie Caron


#great #happy #how #know #order

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.


Giacomo Casanova


#beings #even #himself #his #man