Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
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I'm a character actor.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
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I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.
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Anyone can change the world however they want for the better!
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Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.
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The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
