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"Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell."
"Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face."
"The face of tyranny Is always mild at first."
"The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society."
"A good face is the best letter of recommendation."
"Turn and face the strange."
"To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face"
"It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it."
"Let us be brave in the face of adversity."
"Fear of failure falls away in the face of death."
"Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition."
"Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile."
"In the face of pain there are no heroes."
"Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it."
"We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith."
"At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face stayed expressionless until he said "No. Because we put friends in boxes. You see them once in a while, or even a lot, but still they have their box in your life, their specific place. Their *category.* That's one of the great things about being someone's love-- you have no box in their life because you're part of all their boxes. You're their friend, their lover, their confidante-- all those things. I don't want to be put in one of your boxes and I don't want to shrink you to fit into one of mine."
"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."
"Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion."
"You should not take your intuitions at face value."
"As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption."
