David Hume Quotes
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.
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To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
