"To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other."
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"Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes."
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"Often a silent face has voice and words."
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"The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually."
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"We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul."
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"Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street."
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"Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them."
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"It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue."
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"Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces."
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"I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence"
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"I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time."
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"There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'"
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"Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person."
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"The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody."
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"Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand."
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"Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification."
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"Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear."
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"When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!"
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"Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism."
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"Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?"
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