John Eccles Quotes
I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.
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I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.
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With Caavo, you don't have to know the device name, the network name, the service name. Just which show you want to watch, regardless of whether it's live, recorded, downloaded or streaming.
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If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
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With over 70 licensees, not sure if there is much left. Maybe oxygen? Ed Hardy is unique in that we have a broad range of products and something for everyone.
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John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat.
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I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
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I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.
