Plutarch Quotes
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
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Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.
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Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
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I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.
