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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You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at some point. Showing your human side creates a sensitivity, openness and trust. That's the beginning of the demise in a relationship - not being honest and not being you.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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'It might interest you to know that our state is tired of being used as a chemical toilet so that people in Utah can have plastic lawn furniture.' 'I can't believe an assistant attorney general came right out and said that.''Well, I wouldn't say it in public.'
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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.
