James G. Frazer Quotes
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.
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If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.
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Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.
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As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.
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By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.