Herbert Spencer Quotes
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I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.
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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
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Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
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Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.
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As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.
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We cannot decide for the American people.
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The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.
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When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went.
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
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A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
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By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to relieve him of the burden of caring for the poor precisely as he asks for protection against criminals. The difference between pauper and criminal disappears - both stand outside society.
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My own unryhmed cadences, and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
