Democritus Quotes
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
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True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.
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William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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One of the main purposes of dreaming, therefore, is to increase man’s pleasure, which means to increase the quality of living itself.
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I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
