Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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You have to open up on stage.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
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I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
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I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.
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He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.
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Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
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Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plotMy twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughtsI never really dreamed of heaven muchUntil we put him in the ground.
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'I gather you were all too busy killing each other.''That’s a fairly reductive summary of our history, but I don’t suppose it’s too far from the truth.'
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I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.
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The luxury that I have is I'm not career-minded, I just live from one film to the next. For a time, I was making documentaries, and all my documentaries were winning awards and stuff, and then I lost interest in documentaries.
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Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
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I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.
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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
