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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With the national team, we have these fans, people love of us, people come up to us in our cities, and they're like, 'We love you - what are you doing in Seattle?' And I'm like, 'I live here, and I've played here for the last five years.'
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Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
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I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.
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It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.
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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!
