Herbert Spencer Quotes
The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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Fear controls you.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.
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To be able to stand on the podium and see one Canadian flag raised is one thing, but to see two, it feels like you're not alone.
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Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
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Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.
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It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.
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Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome
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It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.
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I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
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I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on.
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The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
