Ernest Dimnet Quotes
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.
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For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
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I learned a lot just watching people perform.
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You can get fake fur, which, if that's what you want - if you want that fur look - it looks just the same. It's really unnecessary to skin an animal when you can get something that looks just the same without hurting anything.
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The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.
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I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.
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There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.
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Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
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It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.
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Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets.
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I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.
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In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
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A national currency, with the Euro as a common currency - that wouldn't bother me.
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I've always been interested in this notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.
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I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.
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I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.
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Heaven is all health.
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My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
