Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
Quotes to Explore
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.
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It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.
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I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
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Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
