Democritus Quotes
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
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I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.
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I'm sick of running away from things.
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Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.
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I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.
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I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
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I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
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'Tis a grievous thing to be subject to an inferior.
