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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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.
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Don't watch a lot of television, don't listen to a lot of music. God. What have I been doing with all my time? I'm a bore.
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'My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man's better nature...The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.'
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There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.
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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!
