James G. Frazer Quotes
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.'
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But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
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I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.
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There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.
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The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
