Joseph Glanvill Quotes
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
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Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'
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With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.
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Everything in my life really filters down to the music.
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If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
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No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourdeur le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.
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The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.
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The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
