Democritus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
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When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.
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Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
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Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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One should emulate works and deeds of virtue, not arguments about it.
