Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I'm just not very funny.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.
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Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.
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I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
