Empedocles Quotes
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
Quotes to Explore
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
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My human rights activism has been widely met with encouragement and support. Ahangarani should earn plaudits, not only for her cinematic achievements, but also for her humanitarian deeds and her commitment to increased rights and freedoms for all.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.
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There's a lot of risk involved in acting, and you can't take the same kind of risks when you have a kid to feed.
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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
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Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
