Jules Michelet Quotes
He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about.
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The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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I'm a cowboy and an Indian.
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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
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What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
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He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
