David Niven Quotes
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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I thought-To lose all this forever?And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.
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I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.
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I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.
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If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.
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People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.
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There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
