Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.
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I need to work myself into baseball shape. This is part of spring training. I still have to be careful. When the lights come on, I get focused.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
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within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
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I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.
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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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It's the confidence that says if I'm open shoot the basketball. I've been making shots my whole career. I can't turn down an open shot. I'm sorry, I can't do it. If I'm open, and a guy's 30 feet away from me, I've got to let it go.
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It gives the young men some assurance that things are going to be maintained.
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Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
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You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.
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Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.
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I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.
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Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.
