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Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. (p. 280)

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• To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

  

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• I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'

  

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• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

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• It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

  

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• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

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• I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

  

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• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  

  M. H. Abrams
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• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

  

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• My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

  

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• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  

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• There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

  

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• I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

  

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• Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

  

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• There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.

  

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• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  

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• Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.

  

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• Focus on you - your soul, spirit, blessing people with who you are, and following your heart's passions.

  

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• If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

  

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• No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

  

  Tony Abbott
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• The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

  

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• Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. (p. 280)

  

  Marshall McLuhan