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The workman still is greater than his work.

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• As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Up
  • Together
  • High

• What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Important
  • Acting
  • Actors

• There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Body
  • Mountain

• Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Causes
  • Activity

• The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Different
  • Table
  • Burners

• Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Forget
  • Umbrellas

• Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Pessimism
  • Formation
  • Renounce

• The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • War
  • Drink
  • Greater

• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  

  David Hackett Fischer
  • Grief
  • Greater
  • Opposite

• The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • World
  • Different
  • Soul

• Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself.

  

  Erin Gray
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Intelligent

• The workman still is greater than his work.

  

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