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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
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Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.
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The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord’s voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. Its really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.
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I had a very lonely New Year's this year. I had to watch my own balls drop.
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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
