Boris Pasternak Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.
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I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.
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For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.
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How long can this situation last and be tolerated? When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, 'If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded.'
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I lost my eyesIn east wind skiesHere's where I've criedWhere I've triedWhere God and the Tendaberry riseWhere Quakers and revolutionariesJoin for life
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Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years - I still do that.
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Through such impressions one gathers oneself, wins oneself back from the exacting multiplicity, which speaks and chatters there (and how talkative it is!), and one slowly learns to recognize the very few Things in which something eternal endures that one can love and something solitary that one can gently take part in.
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Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
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Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.
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Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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Ch. 1, part 5
