Bernard DeVoto Quotes
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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I will run against anybody.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.
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Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.
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In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
