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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I just desperately wanted to be thin. That's all I thought. I was obsessed with it, which it was ridiculous because I had everything going for me. I was following my dream. Everything I wanted at the time, I was getting. But I was obsessed with this other thing that was making me unhappy.
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Wayne Coyne has put out Flaming Lips records in gummy bear skulls and all these different kinds of packaging that's really, really inventive. And that's what you should always do.
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
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A lot of the stuff that I've done has been more drama and less comedy. I've had some opportunities to do some comedy, and I've often wanted to do that because it fits with me very comfortably because I talk too much, and I'm always saying the wrong thing all the time.
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Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains
