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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness


John Sterling

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EARL OF STERLING Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to ...
STERLING K. BROWN I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with act...
STERLING K. BROWN I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.
STERLING K. BROWN Sarah Paulson doesn't lie. Like, in life. But she doesn't lie onscreen, and you can't ta...
STERLING K. BROWN Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes fo...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON When I walked up on stage at the Emmys, and when people stood up, it was a really sort of emotional,...
STERLING K. BROWN Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because t...
STERLING K. BROWN I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.
STERLING K. BROWN Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.
STERLING K. BROWN I'm a spiritual person. I do believe in a higher power. I believe God placed me on this planet t...
STERLING K. BROWN My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON