Emily Dickinson Quotes
Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Faith is important to me.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: -When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; -When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
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'I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.'
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.
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Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
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I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.
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None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.
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Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
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We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
