Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.
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At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
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My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
