Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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The first concert I ever saw was Roy Orbison.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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I am so grateful. So many dreams came true throughout this experience and I just want to say this. I am not special. I’m “Just a kid from Vegas” anyone can achieve their dreams if they work hard enough so please go for them.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through. It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.
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Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
