Empedocles Quotes
Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
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I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.
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Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
