Ernest Dimnet Quotes
We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.
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The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
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I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.
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The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
