H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'
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It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
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Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
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We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
