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Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer. (p. 214)

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• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

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• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  

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• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

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• One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

  

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• It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.

  

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• If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

  

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• The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

  

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• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

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• I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.

  

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• I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

  

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• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  

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• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

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• The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!

  

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• I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

  

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• Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessèd face

  

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• Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

  

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• The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.

  

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• Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

  

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• I hate the terminology of 'costume' because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture.

  

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• Candy bar companies, through commercials, have tied their products to low-energy cues, transforming what was once a dessert into a pick-me-up for cubicle dwellers.

  

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• I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a model father, a teammate, a leader, and I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he's an amazing human being.

  

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• I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

  

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• I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.

  

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• Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer. (p. 214)

  

  Marshall McLuhan