Karen Blixen Quotes
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
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Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.
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I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.
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I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
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I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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I've got terrible hate mail basically saying I'm vile and evil.
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There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.
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Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.
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God is all. God knows all, and God does all. When the Avatar proclaims he is the Ancient One, it is God who proclaims His manifestation on earth. When man utters for or against the Avatarhood, it is God who speaks through him. It is God alone who declares Himself through the Avatar and mankind.
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I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
