Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
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It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.
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We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
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Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
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The computer brings out the worst in some people.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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It's not about the script: it's about who the director is and who the other people in the cast are. Because you can look at a great script and execute it in a very sophomoric way, and you can look at an OK script, and you can execute it in a very sophisticated way and come out with something really good.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
