Dante Alighieri Quotes
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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My mother is my hero.
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When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.
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It is always your next move.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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I hate the word sexy.
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I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
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I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.
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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.
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To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.
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This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.
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If you give people light, they will find their own way.
