Sigmund Freud Quotes
When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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I don't make deals, I make pictures.
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I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.
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Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
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We did not pay for favors.
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I'd go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I'd stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work.
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G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that a lot of people have their own style, and you can see that. My style is different than Pusha's, it's different than Cudi's. But it's also slightly similar 'cause we have some similar tastes.
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Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).
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We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.
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I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.
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My cousin was Ron O'Neal, who was 'Superfly.' Films like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly' were the biggest things out there in the early '70s. It's hard to remember just how big they were - how much impact they had on the culture, the music, the fashions, the hair styles.
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I want to do more urban R&B with a little bit of pop, but not much. I want to have that soulful kind of side of me come out.
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Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.
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From what little is known of Mr. Trump's tax returns, he used losses to offset virtually all of his taxable income for years by generating something called net operating loss carry-overs.
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If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
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Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
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The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
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Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.
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I think Larry is right to notice that the contradictions are catching the allies up already. It's one of those cases where even before you begin bombing the children, the coalition is falling apart. And that's good news. And I'm very much in favor of it. Some Powell or other is messing up the war.
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.
