Herbert Spencer Quotes
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
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There are three kinds of people-the living, the dead, and those at sea.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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The point of having nuclear weapons is to deter a war of any kind. They have succeeded in doing so for the past 37 years. To be an effective deterrent a potential aggressor must believe that under certain circumstances such weapons will be used.
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I think writers are born, not made.
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Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.
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When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.
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It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
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Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
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I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.
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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
