Martin Luther Quotes
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
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Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.
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If you don't tell people about your success, they probably won't know about it.
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Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
