Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
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In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
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We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
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Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.
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Taking care of myself used to be at the bottom of my list, but I'm all about wellness.
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I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
