Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
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Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.
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Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.
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I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.
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'Braveheart' is way up there for me.
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The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
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While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.
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Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge.
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We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.
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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.
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It's a very scary time for a lot of people; they feel scared to speak up. There's so much controversy even speaking up about politics to begin with. People try to discredit you at every single corner, especially if you're a woman. So it's hard as an artist to really speak up about this kind of stuff when you're trying to be successful and have a career.
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I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage.
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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
