John Desmond Bernal Quotes
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
Quotes to Explore
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
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It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.
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Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.
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It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
