Denis Diderot Quotes
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.
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The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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It was a cold, disapproving gaze, such as a fastidious luncher who was not fond of caterpillars might have directed at one which he had discovered in his portion of salad...
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A flattering painter, who made it his careTo draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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Th' only way t' entertain some folks is t' listen t' 'em.
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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I've always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist - an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel - somebody like that. That's my main forte.
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Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
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Enjoy the peaceful moments, Zhenjin. When the fighting starts, this will be a pleasant memory.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
