Dimitar Sasselov Quotes
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.
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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
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A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.
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Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
