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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I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume?
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We worked very well with Mark Sanford. We stood shoulder to shoulder fighting for the principles that we believe in. But another person that stood there as well was a legislator, State Senator Larry Grooms.
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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
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Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
