Jules Verne Quotes
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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This is Phobos... Its mean density is known, and it is consistent with organic matter. Deimos... same story.
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
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The bourgeoisie loves so-called 'positive' types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
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Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.
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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
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People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.
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With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
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Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.
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If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.
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What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?
