Denis Diderot Quotes
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
