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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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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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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A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.
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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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I'm a lifelong stutterer.
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The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.
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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
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I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.
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I should not wonder, now, if you, Ralph, were to go home and write a book detailing our adventures in these parts, that at least half the sportsmen of England would be in Africa next year, and the race of gorillas would probably become extinct.
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A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
