Felix Dennis Quotes
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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Music is about the performance.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.
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The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
