Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
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I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?
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I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me.
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I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
