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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In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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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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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
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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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We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes. Hopefully we make beautiful clothes with a message, but in the end it's for people to wear. I think that the hype of fashion has come down a level.
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I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
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I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.
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When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.
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Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains
