Idries Shah Quotes
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
Dallas Roberts -
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
Sam Kean -
For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
Caitlin Doughty -
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
Walter Annenberg -
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham -
No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
Walter Cronkite
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
Ralph Fiennes -
It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
Adam Arkin -
I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
Kate Winslet -
I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
Naomi Klein -
If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
Octavia Spencer -
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
Harlan Coben
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
Jack Lowden -
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
D. B. Weiss -
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
Hans Jonas -
Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
Cameron Diaz -
I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
Ted Cruz -
If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
L. E. Modesitt
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I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
Damien Rice -
I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
Taylor Swift -
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I like men in suits. Men in suits I think are so sexy. But I love men in suits who own their own businesses. That's even sexier... I just love a guy who has his own thing going on and believes in it.
Nadine Velazquez -
You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
Idries Shah