Pierre Loti Quotes
But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I was a tomboy.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I'd like to do more acting.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.
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Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
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Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.
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But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
