Denis Diderot Quotes
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
Quotes to Explore
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
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The weather for me is nothing special. The weather couldn't kill me.
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Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places where his army is not...Has he sent its long fingers far enough through the backstreets and alleys, into the drinking dens and the lending-houses, so that he may gather them unto himself and hold them firm without a single swordsman?
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
