Pythagoras Quotes
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.
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The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
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In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie works or not. The financier only makes money if the movie works, and that fundamentally sets up a contentious relationship.
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I guess I'm always up for a challenge.
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I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.
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You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
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I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.
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I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.
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Justice as fairness provides what we want.
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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
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The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.
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God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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I have seen this in previous catastrophes and hurricanes ? there is a bright spot in that new jobs do get created.
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With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.
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We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle without changing anything in social programs, or any redistribution. And they take their votes for a given. They have rich people that bankroll them. And the globalization would continue, but it would continue with permanent dissatisfaction among large segments of the people.
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Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.
