Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
Wadah Khanfar
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
Natalie Dormer
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
Wayne Brady
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
Falk Hentschel
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Ramana Maharshi
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When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.
Paget Brewster
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
Felicity Jones
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
Ira Glass
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
Sam Harris
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
Samantha Shannon
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
Gary Larson
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When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.
Mario Balotelli
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When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.
Jesmyn Ward
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It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.
Quentin Dupieux
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What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.
John C. McGinley
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We felt like we had some other players that fit the role for us and do a lot of things for us. It was a competitive thing.
Joe Gibbs
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus