Denis Diderot Quotes
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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I find the business world hard.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
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Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
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I’m an old woman, your mother’s an old woman, so I’ll be an old woman, and I’ll do what I please.
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All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.
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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
