Democritus Quotes
And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
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Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.
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I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.
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What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.
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Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
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I want people to feel good after I sing.
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Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
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And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.
