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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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• I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
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• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
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• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
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• I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

  

  R. Kelly
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• My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Heart
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• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • More
  • Left
  • Irritating

• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Me
  • Like
  • General

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Want
  • Show
  • Just

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Thought
  • Gay
  • Now

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Great
  • Sports
  • Win

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Life
  • Idle
  • Enslaved

• I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Lost
  • City
  • Said

• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Mass, time, magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Intuition

• Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Moral
  • Commanded