Frederick Pollock Quotes
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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I live inside God's dream for me. I don't try to tell God what I'm supposed to do. . . God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself.
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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
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I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939.
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But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
