Samuel Beckett Quotes
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A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that bioluminescence plays in those ecosystems.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.
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I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
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Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
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Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
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I'm mad for satin.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left…
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
