Dante Alighieri Quotes
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.
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You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
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We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.
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Make injustice visible.
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When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.
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It is the truth which is assailed in any age which tests our fidelity. It is to confess we are called, not merely to profess. If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity. Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point.
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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
