Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Quotes
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
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I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.
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I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.
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There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
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Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
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There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.
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I have provided all of my work related emails.
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If God is as real as the shadow of the Great War on Armistice Day, need we seek further reason for making a place for God in our thoughts and lives? We shall not be concerned if the scientific explorer reports that he is perfectly satisfied that he has got to the bottom of things without having come across either.
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We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
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Just because the left has ignored and disparaged truth for years is no excuse for the right to do so as well. And unfortunately, truth-free politics seems to be growing exponentially on the right.
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A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
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I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.
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On daughter Liza Minnelli I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.
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I've become immune to desire; I snip the danger of wanting in the bud.
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When I was in my early twenties, I spent six months bedbound with a condition called Cholinergic Urticaria that basically means I'm allergic to heat, including my own body. It was bad.
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The first time my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he was going to die, I think I was eight. He brought out all his papers and explained to me what to do with his body and who to call and how to take care of things. You either learn how to survive, or you fall to pieces. I'm pretty good at surviving.
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I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for you?
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A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
