John Aubrey Quotes
Anno 1670, not far from Cyrencester, was an Apparition: Being demanded, whether a good Spirit, or a bad? returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious Perfume and most melodious Twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a Farie.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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I'm a good driver.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.
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I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
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I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.
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I'm an iPod person.
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I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.
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I'm a person that, once I start something, I can't just quit it.
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Anno 1670, not far from Cyrencester, was an Apparition: Being demanded, whether a good Spirit, or a bad? returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious Perfume and most melodious Twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a Farie.
