Denis Diderot Quotes
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
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Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
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Once in a while, I write in Malay and work on something fun that's more for the local Malaysian market, and when that happens, it's always something really special; it speaks volumes that I'm doing it for my fans who have been there for me since day one.
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Facias ipse quod faciamus nobis suades.
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I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.
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Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
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When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.
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I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.
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You have to make it happen.
