Douglas Adams Quotes
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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I hope I'm always learning something.
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The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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Culture changes with economic development.
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A thriller is supposed to thrill you! So it's the plotting of the movie and the unveiling of the story which is important.
Nastassja Kinski -
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
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Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.
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To-day we can affirm that the capitalistic method of production is out of date. So is the doctrine of laissez-faire, the theoretical basis of capitalism… To-day we are taking a new and decisive step in the path of revolution. A revolution, in order to be great, must be a social revolution.
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Albertus Magnus ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur.
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I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
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I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.
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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.