Denis Diderot Quotes
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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I think we are challenged in how we define humanitarian action today and how we relate to long-term needs. We are also confronted with legitimate expectations from the people who want us to respond far more thoroughly to their basic pleas than we would have done in a much more contained form of conflict.
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.
