Oliver Sacks Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Things are only as important as you make them out to be.
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Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
