David Hume Quotes
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
David Hume
Quotes to Explore
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
Wale
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Zack Snyder
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Working with special needs children is hard.
Laura Linney
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
Kapil Sibal
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
Aaron Eckhart
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I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'
Vikram Seth
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I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.
Nate Berkus
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Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.
Patrick White
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I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.
Elbert Hubbard
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Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.
Ayn Rand
