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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My mom is a script supervisor. It's like the family business. It never had that feeling of entertainment. It was always more like, "Eh, it's just a movie," with that crew mentality, which is, "We've done it before and we can do it again."
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Every person deserves to be treated fairly under the law.
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You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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In a society where commonweal does not exist, there are no duties, only exactations to be avoided, and no freedoms, only privileges to be grabbed. There can be no such thing as 'public services' because nothing in the country is truly public. Everything is somebody's fief. And every fief must be exploited if the exploiter cares to survive.
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The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
