David Hume Quotes
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
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Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!
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You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
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When I first watched Bette Davis in 'All About Eve', I was struck by how much I felt that she is Margo Channing and that she's Bette Davis, where she was able to do both, where you're like, 'What an icon.'
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The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
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It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
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She did love him, you know... It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.
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Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
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Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
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Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.
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Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains
