Havelock Ellis Quotes
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way...
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
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They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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I'm a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and I'm always scurrying around in a panic.
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I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
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I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
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I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
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He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
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In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.
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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way...
