John Jewel Quotes
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
Quotes to Explore
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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Lobby for Decency Declares Brain an Erogenous Zone, Demands Mandatory Hatting.
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Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
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After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.
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There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body.
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Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
